.edu / .org links

January 13th, 2007, 5:18 pm

Are .edu links more valuable than .com links?

If so, how much more valuable. I can start a website at the .edu domain of the college I went to. Is this worth doing just for the link value?

January 14th, 2007, 1:12 pm

Google doesn't see any TLD as being more valuable than any other.

January 14th, 2007, 4:20 pm

.edu links have more trust, thousands of links pointing to them and they are relatively older. They are a real jackpot if you have some.

But I am sure a site like http://site.edu/students/3sem/~entra/ will not look as effective as a .com site to your users.

January 14th, 2007, 11:11 pm

They don't have more "trust" based on the TLD extension. It's because they tend to have more authoritive links pointing to them. Google doesn't factor the TLD extension into it's algo for anything.

January 15th, 2007, 4:12 am

meman wrote:

Google doesn't factor the TLD extension into it's algo for anything.

Apart from maybe a small help in local searches in my opinion.

However, I agree, edu links in themsleves are not better, it is just that the trust and links to edu sites that then possibly link to you can have better effects so it looks like an .edu thing.

January 15th, 2007, 5:24 am

IMO it really does not make a big difference whether you have dot edu or dot com extension. What is important is the quality of your site and the vote that it gets from other sites makes the difference.

January 15th, 2007, 2:06 pm

Quote:

Google doesn't factor the TLD extension into it's algo for anything.

Don't tell me that, google uses TLD extension to give better results using user's geographical location. For example, .co.uk site is more likely to be in search results on google.co.uk than on google.be

January 16th, 2007, 2:21 pm

If you wanna get an domain for your college I think you must get one .edu domain because is more representative.
In fact .edu is for education .com is for comercial area and .org for an organization !
Good luck !

January 16th, 2007, 11:35 pm

manumiglani wrote:

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Google doesn't factor the TLD extension into it's algo for anything.

Don't tell me that, google uses TLD extension to give better results using user's geographical location. For example, .co.uk site is more likely to be in search results on google.co.uk than on google.be

The location of the site is detirmined from the location of the server hosting it.
A .com hosted in the UK will be seen as a UK site, A co.uk hosted in america will be seen as an american site.

January 17th, 2007, 1:12 am

meman wrote:

manumiglani wrote:

Quote:

Google doesn't factor the TLD extension into it's algo for anything.

Don't tell me that, google uses TLD extension to give better results using user's geographical location. For example, .co.uk site is more likely to be in search results on google.co.uk than on google.be

The location of the site is detirmined from the location of the server hosting it.

It is true that hosting of a site also determines its local search rank, but TLD is also considered a factor in local search results IMO (No offence intended).

meman wrote:

A .com hosted in the UK will be seen as a UK site

I agree with that.

meman wrote:

A co.uk hosted in america will be seen as an american site.

It isn't true. A .co.uk will be seen as a UK site.

January 17th, 2007, 1:55 am

A .co.uk hosted in America has added value and one which I capitalise on in my work.

A .co.uk hosted in the UK can thrive in google.co.uk but it can suffer and is harder to rank in my experience in google.com

A .co.cuk hosted in America can rank very well and is classed as a UK site so can do well in google.co.uk but also transfers well into google.com and can rank there also even if its a UK product or service.

The above are all dependent on certain other key factors so it isn't quite as simple as that but thats my experience from physical tests on the many sites/tests that I run continually.

May 6th, 2007, 1:12 pm

I don't know that they are more valuable, but its my understanding that not just anyone can go out and get a .edu domain. I think the average user will see .edu websites as being more credible.

May 11th, 2007, 4:30 pm

What do you think of someone selling a permanent page on site.edu, what would be the value of such a page?

May 11th, 2007, 4:40 pm

All things equal, its no more valuable than a page on a .com, .net or .cc

May 14th, 2007, 10:46 am

Does .edu really work? maybe in the past