Question on .edu backlinks.

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I just read a report on getting backlinks from .edu sites. Nothing in there that I was not already aware of, but it did pose something that I had not considered.

The writer suggested that when you leave your links, that you use your name and not a keyword as if you use a keyword you will get the comment deleted. I asked him about this but did not receive any response. So I thought I would bring the question to the forum.

What is the point of leaving backlinks to your site and using your name as the keyword? Don't you want the link to get you credit on your keyword? This will not accomplish that as far as I know.

Tell me where I am wrong, if I am.

On another point, can .edu and .gov backlinks really be wroth more than any other link? This doesn't seem to be that logical to me. I know that Google and the others don't necessarily follow logic with their algorithms and rules. So does anyone REALLY have any proof of this theory?

Inquiring minds want to know.
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  • If you or any other common marketer/SEO/spammer can leave your link on a .edu or .gov site it's not worth that much. However, you can be sure that Google will devalue links coming from that page pretty quickly as spamm..., er, profile exchangers get wind of it being open for commenting.

    Now, if you have a contextual link on an authority page from one of these domains that you get for being president of the alumni association or having the right political credentials, then it might be worth quite a lot.
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    • Not true. If you can leave a relevant anchor on a .edu site then that's awesome, but using your name is fine too. Either way it still counts as a backlink. I've tested this countless times across multiple domains. DOFOLLOW links from these types of sites are the best to have though, and it still doesn't matter what the anchor text is. If you're smart about how you leave the link then the less likely it is that the link will be considered "spam" and the less likely other "spammers" will catch on.

      SVLABS- It's not so much that having outbound links is bad, but it DOES matter WHO you're linking to when you create outbound links. By creating outbound links, you're potentially giving your link juice away to another site...and your PR may drop. If you link to the right sites though, this won't happen.
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  • No opinions on .edu back links? Am I in the wrong forum by any chance?
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  • But where can I find the .edu and .gov sites from the internet. Some internet marketer sell these links but I don't want to pay just for list of websites.
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    • I want beer, but I don't want to pay for it or brew it myself, so where can I get for free?

      You can find all the sites to place your backlinks on by doing a search for 'site:.edu' and follow that with your chosen paramiters. You can find more information on this by doing a search through this forum or going to the WSO forum and paying for the information.
  • Your desired keywords in the anchor text is ideal, but a link is a link. When people usually link to articles/sites they may use such randomised anchor text as "here is the article" or something along those lines. Such links look natural to Google and if you use a name perhaps on a blog comment then it'll looks less spammy, meaning that it'll have a higher chance of sticking.
  • Not all links are created equal.

    Obviously having your keyword as anchor text is ideal and will provide you the greatest SEO benefits no matter what. But as was pointed out, on a blog comment, better to get the link with bad anchor text than to have no link at all and a comment author link that is a keyword has a high chance of being deleted.

    Also consider the link reputation of the domain where the link is coming from. Link reputation is essentially the overall authority that any link from a given domain will carry. If the domain is strong, then the link reputation, with or without perfect anchor will carry you a long way. Get the anchor text in there and you're killin' it.

    But, having said all that, I'd have to agree with christopherNV and say that it's never actually been proven in any test that I am aware of that .edu or .gov links carry any more authority than any other strong, authoritative TLD.
  • Matt Cutts made in clear in one of his video that Google do not weight any particular tld over another.

    If you want some evidence that and .edu domain does not really carry any extra weight, check this Google search:

    viagra site:.edu - Google Search

    (that search is not as bad as it used to be and G appearedto have cleaned it up a lot)
  • I think getting the backlink to stick is far better than having a proper anchor text keyword in the comment name, which as a result gets deleted because it is considered spam. If in doubt just put a boring unrelated word in the hyperlinked comment name box.
  • Both .edu and .gov backlinks are seen as trustworthy links by Google so having a backlink form these sites would help you a lot in building trust with Google.
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    • So you are saying that Google should give more trust to all those viagra sites that have links on .edu domains?
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  • No weight age over .edu domains anymore
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  • The most important with any blacklink types (include .EDU and .GOV ) is how many OBL that the website have . If they have a lot of OBL, that bad . In almost case .EDU links is the best way to get backlinks, but get backlinks on .EDU or .GOV is not easy
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    • Why is having outbound links bad?
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    Question on .edu backlinks.

    I just read a report on getting backlinks from .edu sites. Nothing in there that I was not already aware of, but it did pose something that I had not considered. The writer suggested that when you leave your links, that you use your name and not a keyword as if you use a keyword you will get the comment deleted. I asked him about this but did not receive any response. So I thought I would bring the question to the forum.