Link Building News, — March 19, 2007 — 2 Comments
Get a Free .edu Link Tomorrow!
This post was published 4 years 10 months 23 days ago. In SEO, things change quickly and this advice might be out of date. Just wanted to let you know before acting on the advice. :)
In our ever evolving quest at getting links, people have come to appreciate that the .edu (Education) link is one of the greatest prizes, the holy grail of links. This is not because of some special power that a .edu TLD gives you, but because they are difficult to find, and even harder to acquire.
Because of their illusiveness, they have a huge trust factor and can become the authority on almost anything easily.
Here are a few reasons why .edu links are hard to come by:
They usually can’t be purchased.
You can’t beg for them.
You’re not a web designer for a college.
You don’t know any IT directors.
With that in mind, how much would you actually pay for a .edu link?
Tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. PST I’m going to give you a post that will show you how you can get a free .edu back link in under 1 minute.
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I am surprised there were no comments on this one when I found it from visiting another one of your related posts. For me, in the study of SEO .edu backlinks have become my favorite. This is mostly due to my admiration for .edu domains and the idea of trying to get one. Their ability to be bought and sold is somewhat like the snuff film. It is highly unlikely that they even exist for sale, but the idea of them being passed still makes for a great story. Obviously I am not trying to make light of the potential for a snuff film. However I do believe there is the same aura and mystic in acquiring a .edu domain and perhaps legal repercussions as well. Does anyone know about that?
For me, acquiring .edu backlinks even if they are not do follow is still so much more highly advantageous. Although we do not necessarily know how Google values them it is safe to say a .edu has incredible power over any other link just because of the inherit difficulty in acquiring them. It shows legitimacy. The same might be able to be said for .gov domains. However I have never seen a case for them.