What makes .edu profile links so important?

Hey,

I'm sorry for my skepticism, but I just don't understand what makes profile links on high PR .edu domains so powerful.

The page that your backlink will be on is freshly created, with no PR, so in essence the PR is useless (well not totally of course) but it really decreases the value of the backlink. Yes .EDU is worth more weight than a normal backlink, but does the extension in itself justify the higher price that is asked for edu profile links?

Thanks!

In my opinion, no, it didn't do fuck all for my site. But everyone is different, it works for some people apparently but I won't be using profile services anymore. Search engines don't even index forum profiles most of the time. I used Lindexed and Linklicious and still nothing in terms of getting it noticed.

That they are .edu

It is the pr of the domain that is the biggest factor. Works the same for other tld's as well. I beg to differ about the forum profiles. I bought a package from BigBuddy that moved my site from 9 to 4 with 25 links.

It is more about moderation than anything else, a little of this type, a little of that type and pretty soon you have a cowboy stew of link types.

Nothing.

They are as important as yesterdays weather.

quality backlinks

It is important in a way that you are liable because of your background. You can gain their trust.

Is Google even giving that much juice to these edu backlinks any more after the Panda update?

Don't know; continue mixing them up and add some gov links as well.

I had the same question. It's all about the quality of the links.

I think it is more than just how big the main page is, but also what is the age/pr of where your link will be on the site, with most .edu it will be a profile links and i don't think they are very good, you would have to get the .edu link on a more popular page of the site.

TNphoneman said:

It is more about moderation than anything else, a little of this type, a little of that type and pretty soon you have a cowboy stew of link types.

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I agree with this. For the most part my sites that do well have a little bit of everything and mixing in some profile links and/or .edu with other stuff has helped me outrank. I have seen sites that rank based on mostly forum profiles, for example. Then when I get the same links they have, plus my other link types including the links that I control, and combine that with the links of other competitors, I win.

I could study 3 different high ranking competitors and find 3 ( or more) different strategies and link types.

I find a lot of people completely dismiss certain types of links while I personally have ranked using links that were supposedly obsolete around 2004 or earlier. There is a lot of misinformation and certain things are more hyped than others. The thing that has worked best for me is researching, testing, doing, and finding out for myself.