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  • Link Building/Popularity » SEO Factor (2)

    26 June 2007

    I first read about Adison University’s blog offering from Cristian Mezei at SEOPedia. Apparently, you can sign up for $25 a month, and get your very own blog with a .edu domain. You could setup a blog, get some text on there, and link it to your main site/blog for the almighty .edu link. This, […]

    Example of a Google Penalty

    11 June 2007

    Rand posted today on How to Handle a Google Penalty, and an Example. This is a great explanation on not only what causes a penalty, but more importantly how to distinguish if you are indeed being penalized. Rand gives a real world example using the real estate industry, and the devaluing of reciprocal links in […]

    Free Social Marketing Idea

    30 May 2007

    In today’s SEO world, there is a lot f buzz about social media and using it to market a site/blog/business. With the advent of MySpace, and the literally thousands of other sites that allow for the creation of a profile, the sharing of pictures, the spreading of news, or anything else that allows for the […]

    Buying Links and Staying Safe

    3 May 2007

    With the recent uproar over Mr. Cutt’s request that people report paid text link purchasers, there’s a bit of fear out there for the site owners that take part in this method. I wanted to give a few tips on purchasing links, and a few things to keep in mind while considering to do so.
    First, […]

    Paid Links To Cause Penalty?

    16 April 2007

    Matt Cutts wrote recently that he would much like people to report sites that sell/purchase paid links using the spam report on his blog. This is obviously causing something of an uproar because a lot of people make use of purchased text links for more than just ranking reasons.
    But it seems that Google will […]

    Link Popularity

    11 April 2007

    Because the blog will be ported over, I want to touch base on a lot of older topics, with an updated view. The first, and probably one of the most important of which is link popularity.
    In the old days (no more than 2 years ago. That’s a long time ago in the www world), link […]

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  • A Free (sorta) .EDU Link » SEO Factor

    « I’m Back – Header Tags and SEO » 26 June 2007

    I first read about Adison University’s blog offering from Cristian Mezei at SEOPedia. Apparently, you can sign up for $25 a month, and get your very own blog with a .edu domain. You could setup a blog, get some text on there, and link it to your main site/blog for the almighty .edu link. This, I think, is great marketing by the folks at Adison; targeting the “SEO savvy.” But those that are just a bit more “savvy” will know that there is just one problem… .edu’s don’t help.

    That’s not to say a link from a .edu or .gov won’t be very helpful, but there is no special attention or reward given to inbound links from these sites. There has always been this myth that getting a link from a .edu or .gov domain would yield higher rewards, with the thought that (and rightfully so) in order to get one of these domains an organization has to adhere to a set of rules or guidelines, thus inherently proving it’s authority to the search engines, and boosting the validity of a link.

    This is a great idea, but Matt Cutts himself has gone on record several times debunking this myth. However, .edu and .gov links are indeed very sought after, even by SEO’s that know the truth. Why? Well, .edu and .gov sites are normally very established and usually have a great deal of link popularity. So, if a link is given to a site, so is that large amount of link juice.

    Always keep this in mind when perusing your links. It’s not that .edu’s and .gov’s get a magical boost, it’s just that they gain a lot of popularity. That being said, a link from the above mentioned blog would be no more useful than any other blog.

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