Are edu links still valuable in 2017?

[RankBoss]

Some .edu links which have more authority and has powerful links within it may be worth for your need. So try to search some powerful edu websites and buy links as much as you need.

 

[KSMayson]

Thanks for the feedback everyone, some people think it's a great idea and some people think it's bad. I'm still trying to decide whether or not I should go for it.

 

[dailydollars17]

Hi

Always edu links are very good. Try to get edu links it will always helpful for you

 

[firstnamelastname]

The people on this forum ruined this method bro. Years ago it used to be you could contact a few schools and they would all link to you. You could easily get 15 scholarship backlinks and that would push you to #1
Now
1) the schools are not answering
2) if they do answer, they say "sorry, we are no longer posting scholarships on our website
3) if they do post, the page already has 200 OBL so it's useless

to answer your question, no, edu links are not as valuable as once thought.

 

[naheedakbar]

Actual editorials would be a gem, others won't have much impact.

 

[firstnamelastname]

also, it depends on the school. if it's from harvard.edu ya
if it's from some weird school in hawaii with DA 40 forget it
google is not going to freak out just because you got .edu backlink

 

[queenjude]

It depends - if your site is contextually linked from a Law Journal from a prominent school like Yale or mentioned in an HBR article - then yes -- the boost should be good.

Profile links, schohalrship links are only good for link/brand diversity.

 

[mbreezy]

Yes and No.

The TLD doesn't matter.

.edu links are good to acquire because they have a lot of authority built up from being a real and actual resource. The domains have a lot of link equity to spread around, just like any good resource.

So yes, it could be a good link. But beware that it might not be that valuable if the link is not relevant/contextual to your page. But if the level of effort is low, you might as well do it.

 

[moonlighsunligh]

bought these links, no effect whatsoever

Are they indexed .. did you check this ? and how long did you wait for the rankins to improve?

 

[Mochino]

Anyone wanna test this out?

I have some private software which can blast .edu links

Pm me if you like

 

[darulez]

to answer your question, no, edu links are not as valuable as once thought.

agree. linkbuilding is dead. content is king

 

[SEOMobster]

1 or 2 EDU links wouldnt kill yah.
Dont build a ton of them though, and dont make it look like a bot made the blog.

 

[MatthewGraham]

agree. linkbuilding is dead. content is king

Are you Matt Curtis' shill account?

 

[Initial Effort]

IMO, Yes. Provided it's a high quality .edu link.

 

[Appleseed30]

Remember all the hype about .edu backlinks?

Remember Angela's backlink?

Oh, those were the days

Newbies spending tons of money on them

 

[Topiano]

How about .gov link? Is it also wortheless?

.gov and .edu links almost gets same authority from google.

IMO - .edu and .gov still works good , Thing is majority of the folks in here create .edu links in a spam-my manner. You see them making profile links and call it .edu links. I've worked with editorial links and it's comes good in SERP. You don't want to make thin contents and outbound to your website.

 

[SearchEngineWays]

Yes, it's valuable for your website back links natural diversity but you must go for real quality .edu back links

 

[affk2011]

Edu links dont matter as much as where on the domain your link is. Relevance mixed with quantity wins.

 

[Jay Yadav]

Still Worth !!

 

[mysitetool]

CF/TF 90+ domain works better)