Saturday, December 12, 2015

Gov and Edu Backlinks - Really Worth it?

Every SEO forum since the dawn of time Google has been debating the power of high authority links such as .Edu or .Gov links.

There are literally dozens of articles out there in the great wide web and every few months a different debate begins on how much these links actually effect your rankings.


The domain name edu is a sponsored top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Since 2001, new registrants to the domain have been required to be United States-affiliated institutions of higher education, though before then non-U.S.-affiliated - and even non-educational institutions - registered, with some retaining their registrations to the present.

It’s a common belief in some SEO circles that a link from .Edu or .Gov site is the best type of link you can ever get in order to improve your rankings. This belief comes from the fact it is not easy to obtain control of these domains on the open market as you have to be an educational or government establishment.

Below you will find some examples of users profiles of these sites

http://discuss.fido.gov/viewprofile
https://community.msoe.edu/people
http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/myomeka/posters/

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