Comments on: .EDU and .GOV Links: SEO Gold Mines?

By: Steven Fe

Steven Fe — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:06:27 +0000

Today all of .gov and .edu disable comment component or all of that is no follow link

By: Canonical SEO

Canonical SEO — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:16:45 +0000

IMO The only reasons that the Fueleconomy.gov link might be “so valuable” are:

1) fueleconomy.gov would be relevant to other car related sites,
2) fueleconomy.gov is likely well linked itself and can drive a decent amount of link juice to your site and
3) fueleconomy.gov can drive targeted traffic to your site.

But my point is that it is not the .gov or .edu TLD itself that makes it valuable. If fueleconomy.gov were instead named fueleconomy.com, had the same back link profile as the .gov, had the same exact content as the .gov, etc. then a link from the .com version of the site would be JUST as valuable.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:43:04 +0000

Links from .EDU & .GOV have become so sought after with the SEO craze that they are quite hard to get. And bottom line a link is a link. But if you continue to produce good content there is a chance someone with a .edu or .gov site will links to you.

For instance Fueleconomy.gov will link out to other car related websites when citing something. That kind of link is so valuable!

By: Alex Cortez

Alex Cortez — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:03:28 +0000

Personally, I don’t know much about SEO but I’d rather have a PR6 from a .com site that’s niche related than a PR6 from a .edu that has nothing to do with what I do. For me it’s better if my competitors chase those impossible-to-get .gov/.edu links while I plug away with my own strategy. Good post.

By: Zarko

Zarko — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:40:10 +0000

I agree 100%, this is a myth from old SEO’s that remained until today. A link from a PR7 .gov or .edu has the same value as the link from a PR7 .com domain, the only real thing to look for is that the link comes from a related site to your content. But, so called SEO gurus still push this myth and there are plenty SEO newbies trying to get something that is almost impossible.