What is your opinion on this? (Link to a .edu site)

[VisualArtistFrankBonilla]

I received this email from a Paul Lynch of LinkExchanges.net . What is your opinion on this idea?


Hi all,

.edu sites are classed as "Authority" websites in the eyes of the search engines. These domains cannot be bought from any registrar and are only issued to Colleges, Universities or Education Establishments.

So why would I need a .edu site?

If you know your basic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) stuff you will know that the main ranking factor bar none is backlinks (Link Building). The Google algorithm (Rule Book) as changed loads in recent years and it now gives more ranking juice to links that come from related websites. I have seen some sites rankings jump onto the first pages of the SERP's (Search Engine Result Pages) with only a handful of these quality related links where as I have seen some people spend countless hours getting thousands of free directory and article links and move nowhere!

Take this site for example and Kevin will back me up here:

Home Business – Home Business Ideas – Home Business Opportunity

Kevin was doing his own link building before he met me and getting nowhere.

Now type in Google the keyword phrase: home business

You will see his site on the first page for this MASSIVE traffic keyword!!!

How did I do that? By getting his site quality related links... It only took a handful of these links

So how do you spot a "Quality related Link"?

Ok here is the key. Imagine if you could get a link from a website in your industry that ALREADY ranks on the first page of Google for the keywords that you are trying to target or similar keywords within your industry.

Do you think that kind of link would help your rankings?

Oh my god you have no idea how much these kind of links will see your rankings jump up those results pages!!!

Here is an example of exactly what I am talking about:

Now type in Google the keyword phrase: make money online

You will find the following site at number 1 position at the time of writing this: Make Money Online

Now look down the right hand side under "Blogroll" and find the link text "Home Business"... Which site is that linking to?

Now can you see why Home Business – Home Business Ideas – Home Business Opportunity as suddenly jumped onto the first page of Google for the keyword phrase: home business

But why would a number 1 ranking site want to link back to your site that is nowhere in the search engines?

Because I offered the webmaster a link on my .edu site in exchange for a link on his site

Conclusion

If you have your own .edu site and approach people for a link exchange they will snap your hand off because .edu sites are seen throughout the whole internet world as "Gold Dust" when it comes to getting a link from them back to your site!

Now can you see why a .edu site is so special

I want mine NOW Paul how do I get it???

All you need to do in order to get your .edu domain with FTP details is to have made a minimum of 20 posts within this forum. That's It !!!

Once you have a minimum of 20 posts simply send me a PM and I will have your domain with FTP details ready to go the same day (During office hours).

You will also need to choose a name for your new site and let me know in the PM.

What you need to know before PM'ing me:

You will be getting a domain name and hosting for the domain name. This means that you will recieve a domain name and FTP (File Transfer Protacol) details via PM. From here you will need to know how to upload a site (your own webfiles) to the hosting account using the FTP details.

The sites will not come with MYSQL.

If you have any questions at all please DO NOT PM me. Please leave a post in this thread then others can learn.

Regards
Paul

UPDATE: 19th January 2010

*You MUST ONLY upload informational content to your new domain. This will only benefit YOU when contacting link exchange partners.

*Making your new site look like a normal College or University site works GREAT. (If you want to know what a normal .edu site looks like just Google this: .edu)

*All advertising or the selling of anything is strictly forbidden.

*MYSQL does NOT come with this domain.

*Email addresses DO NOT come with this domain (For the best results set up a free Gmail email address like this: [email protected] (It will be FREE :0).
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Last edited by reedhowey; 01-19-2010 at 11:04 AM.


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Thanks
Frank

 

[TestCase]

Strikes me as spammy/scammy. Probably not a "true", straight up "dot edu". Based on the email example that was suggested, it might be "dot edu dot pe".

Whatever is going on, it would most likely be a short term gain in ranking -- assuming it does work at all. Google will most likely deal with this in short order and those that try to partake of his "program"/participate in this manipulation of rankings will end up being kicked to the curb as a result...

My 2 cents

 

[VisualArtistFrankBonilla]

Strikes me as spammy/scammy. Probably not a "true", straight up "dot edu". Based on the email example that was suggested, it might be "dot edu dot pe".

Whatever is going on, it would most likely be a short term gain in ranking -- assuming it does work at all. Google will most likely deal with this in short order and those that try to partake of his "program"/participate in this manipulation of rankings will end up being kicked to the curb as a result...

My 2 cents

I tend to agree, and have not replied.

 

[Scott Davis]

dot edu dot pe :bah:

I replied to him about that not being a real .edu site and he just said... doesn't matter, as long as your trades *think* it's good for them! So the logic is even if the fake edu site gets banned by google and gives no benefit to your trade, hey you got yours right??

Stinks to high heaven.

if you want an edu link, get it from a REAL edu.

 

[WebIntellects - Rob]

If I were you I would ignore it. I think if you the search you will find something about him.