May 2, 2007
How Do You Obtain Links from .edu Sites?
In a Cre8asite Forums post, a user asks an important question for a link building campaign: how do you get links from .edu sites? As you know, .edu sites have a higher inherent trust and as such can help boost your rankings if you can get that coveted link.
A lot of good ideas were thrown out by members and moderators, including:
- "One of the easiest ways is to create content that fills an informational void that an edu site might be interested in linking to." (Bill Slawski, administrator)
- "Another way is to search for student blogs and see if you can connect with one." (yannis, member)
- "If you see a competititor with .edu links go to those .edu pages and see what they are linking to." (EGOL, administrator)
These are good tips, and we've already written a bit about getting .edu links in the past but I'm sure you have more tips. If so, please contribute to the Cre8asite Forums post.
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Tamar Weinberg in Informational Sites at May 2, 2007 8:59 AM
Comments (4)
Comments
Many .edu sites or pages have high PageRank and a good amount of link weight to pass along because they are good sites/pages with lots of incoming links.
There is no special .edu bonus just for having a .edu TLD. Matt Cutts said as much last fall in one of his video blogs. Plus, it doesn't make sense. Why would Google ever give out generic bonuses when they can individually assess the quality of each and every page based on merit alone?
That post you linked to, from over a year ago, predates Matt Cutt's refusal, and it appears even then you had people saying its unlikely to be true (Jill Whalen, etal).
The bottom line is .edu sites tend to have good weight to pass long, but at the end of the day a link from a .com site and a link from a .edu site will give the same benefits if the two sites have equal weight.
Plus, even if Google had at one time done this, and I doubt it, they would have certainly seen the error of their ways considering how much spam is popping up on .edu domains now thanks to this myth.
Posted by Chris Beasley at May 2, 2007 10:01