Thread: Are .edu & .gov backlinks more beneficial than .com backlinks

One important thing to note (which applies to any back link source), if the edu or gov link is from a useless site, then the back link will have the same credibility. So a non-authoritative gov site back link for your niche is of less value than a highly respected com link for your niche.

Thanks, have a great 2012

Area51, that text link marketplace $1 .edu offer is insane. Surely you misquoted the price...

And I totally agree--some blog comments on an edu domain don't seem to have that much effect. A well-placed contextual link inside a relevant piece of content...well, that seems to be something of the holy grail of backlinking.

.edu and .gov sites are have good authority on eyes of search engines....

As I know that they must have somw weight on SERPs since I used to work on those links and I found that it works well.

As I've seen so far, according to PR, of course not all .edu's pages are same weight. So, I only chose few that have good enough PR or better (of course to leave comments. Still I chose sites/page that has post/topic which relates to my site. I never know how it is all exactly work, but I did my best so far Check this one which has PR3 and browse another page to compare. blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2011/08/storybook-readings-at-the-heye-center-in-new-york-one-consolation-for-the-end-of-summer[dot]html

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Because .edu, .org and .gov are authoritative sites I get scared mostly when I have to use .gov backlinks. There are political institutions behind this websites and they could track us as "spammers" and penalize us.

Does somebody have experience in this terms?

Thanks