The Power Of The Domain

[peter_d]

Look up "Buy ******"

Notice anything unusual?

Those .edu domains sure do pack a punch....

HatTip: DaveN

[Forsh]

Someone must have turned in the #1 listing, because the link is now broke.

Number 2 no longer shows, but the Google cache tells all:

http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:...ient=firefox-a

Interesting stuff.

[peter_d]

Right

It's interesting to see just how powerful domain weighting has become in Google. The content doesn't even need to be related....

[John Scott]

Those .edu domains sure do pack a punch....

Just to clarify, domain authority is one thing, but I do not believe that .edu domains automatically have some enhanced ranking.

Just my

[David E]

How do they do it, do the .edu sites just let em set up pages or something? Or do the spammers just hack the sites?

[John Scott]

Some universities allow students to host home pages on the university domain.