Why .EDU?
The reason why .edu back links are so powerful is because such domains are classed as authority sites with many inbound links to solid authoritive content. Not only that, but, education institutions are the only ones allowed to host a edu domain.
Because of this, there are billions of .com, net and info sites but only tens of thousand .edu domains.
Search engines convey a lot of weight to an .edu link and if your lucky enough to have one pointing to your site, it will be worth thousands of PR1-3 back links. The higher the Page Rank of the edu domain the greater the link juice will flow to external links from that domain.
We have been testing the power of .edu links and the affect they have on search engine positions. Our conclusions have been without a doubt, that just one .edu link to your url, will promote that url in the search engine positions, often to the top of page one.
Because of this, there are billions of .com, net and info sites but only tens of thousand .edu domains.
Search engines convey a lot of weight to an .edu link and if your lucky enough to have one pointing to your site, it will be worth thousands of PR1-3 back links. The higher the Page Rank of the edu domain the greater the link juice will flow to external links from that domain.
We have been testing the power of .edu links and the affect they have on search engine positions. Our conclusions have been without a doubt, that just one .edu link to your url, will promote that url in the search engine positions, often to the top of page one.