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How Much Will 50 .edu & .gov Backlinks Boost My Rankings?

by taskemann
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Hi! Today I ordered 50 .edu & .gov backlinks from a guy at Fiverr.
This "gig" had over 3700 thumbs up and only 1 thumbs down, so I think he can deliver what he described!

But how much will this boost my search engine rankings?
#.edu #.gov #backlinks #boost #gov #rankings
  • Profile picture of the author options
    Not alot, if he pings them they might give a little boost, but there most likly forum profile links which are quite hard to get indexed.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Probably not at all.

      .edu and .gov links do not carry any magical ranking power.

      If anyone is selling them, it is because they are using a list of sites that they are spamming to death. You said this gig had 3700 thumbs up, so your link is probably link 3701 on each of those sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author taskemann
    But I have read on this forum that .gov and .edu backlinks are very effective to increase the search engine rankings...
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by taskemann View Post

      But I have read on this forum that .gov and .edu backlinks are very effective to increase the search engine rankings...
      And that is usually coming from people selling .edu and .gov backlinks.

      You shouldn't believe everything you read.

      ****ty .edu links are just as worthless as ****ty .com links.
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      • Profile picture of the author taskemann
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        And that is usually coming from people selling .edu and .gov backlinks.

        You shouldn't believe everything you read.

        ****ty .edu links are just as worthless as ****ty .com links.
        Ok, so it is the amount of backlinks that counts, and not the domain level?

        (I don't believe in everything I read, the bible for example )
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        • Profile picture of the author hashbury
          Originally Posted by taskemann View Post

          Ok, so it is the amount of backlinks that counts, and not the domain level?

          (I don't believe in everything I read, the bible for example )
          Its not the amount its the quality of the backlinks.

          You want backlinks that are closely related to your site, and from a preferably high pr page with low outbound links.
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    • Profile picture of the author options
      They can be but i think with the panda update they will be pretty useless, even more so if you have alot of OBL...
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  • Profile picture of the author SEOATCL
    I don't think if 50 backlinks are enough to boost your ranking, try order more for positive results.
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    • Profile picture of the author options
      Have a read of the seo questions at the top of this, http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...questions.html its both quantity and quality, you need to diverse your backlinking from social bookmarking to article maketing, relevant content in your backlinks.

      You should try bmr and hire a writer to do the work for you, a pr3 link will give you much more weight than 100 links of crap.
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  • Profile picture of the author IamTJM
    High PR and relative backlinks along with unique/quality content are key for rankings. .edu and .gov backlinks can help, but it depends on many things such as competitors' backlinks, whether they are dofollow, etc...
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  • Profile picture of the author n_touch
    It all depends on the quality of the backlinks. The odds of you getting the best quality are pretty slim. Either they are going to be profile backlinks, or they are going to be blogs that have a ton of comments as said before. Even if they get indexed, so many of the comments are the exact same, that many of the search engines may not count the link. The one thing that you can do, and it takes a little work is to get the gig, and the go back to the blog and see if there are other posts that have less comments and the make a comment yourself. A little extra work, but may payoff in the long run.
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  • Profile picture of the author rowanman28
    The potential is that these links will hurt your rankings, not help them, especially if you have a new site. Best advice I have would be to pay individual people to do what they would do if they actually liked your site. Write a blog post about it, share it, tweet it, like it, give it a Google Plus.
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