Comments on: What Would You do with your own .edu? http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/01/what-would-you-do-with-your-own-edu/ Tired of useless Top 10 Lists for ranking in Google? Looking for effective and insightful info? SEO Black Hat Blog offers articles on Blackhat SEO, Linkbait & Link Spamming. And if you need to escape White Hat SEO Whiners, check out he Private Black Hat Search Engine Optimization Forum. Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:07:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Cabinet http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/01/what-would-you-do-with-your-own-edu/comment-page-1/#comment-6850 Cabinet Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:24:24 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/01/what-would-you-do-with-your-own-edu/#comment-6850 I think i would build up a page, a website and trying to sell it to an .edu college. I think i would build up a page, a website and trying to sell it to an .edu college.

]]> By: presellpageman http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/01/what-would-you-do-with-your-own-edu/comment-page-1/#comment-6277 presellpageman Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:48:22 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/01/what-would-you-do-with-your-own-edu/#comment-6277 Just because Matt Cutts is saying Google doesn't favor .edu tlds, doesn't mean they don't favor a set of .edu sites. If you read up on the trust rank patent (which is already pretty old guys!) then you learn that the algorithm has to be seeded with quality/trusted sites to work. That means a) a list of trusted sites (like a list of the 1000 biggest schools) b) user inputs of manual approvals c) all sorts of other quality signals (social stuff, user tracking) All that just means, that Quad is true that a naked, parked .edu domain won't help you much except for PR/brand value ( which is still nice ) ... But THAT value still depends on your business probably... best, presellpageman PS: I might be wrong, but if you want to spam MSN, the .edu WILL help you *ggg* but spamming MSN is a lot easier than working 1 year on an .edu transfer Just because Matt Cutts is saying Google doesn’t favor .edu tlds, doesn’t mean they don’t favor a set of .edu sites.

If you read up on the trust rank patent (which is already pretty old guys!) then you learn that the algorithm has to be seeded with quality/trusted sites to work.

That means a) a list of trusted sites (like a list of the 1000 biggest schools) b) user inputs of manual approvals c) all sorts of other quality signals (social stuff, user tracking)

All that just means, that Quad is true that a naked, parked .edu domain won’t help you much except for PR/brand value ( which is still nice ) … But THAT value still depends on your business probably…

best,
presellpageman

PS: I might be wrong, but if you want to spam MSN, the .edu WILL help you *ggg* but spamming MSN is a lot easier than working 1 year on an .edu transfer

]]> By: aftermarket http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/01/what-would-you-do-with-your-own-edu/comment-page-1/#comment-6275 aftermarket Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:04:11 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/01/what-would-you-do-with-your-own-edu/#comment-6275 Google doesn't value 1 tld over another? .gov? Google says a lot of things. I think they do weight tld's higher than others, but the difference is probably not that large. But that's me. Quadszilla would no better though. Google doesn’t value 1 tld over another? .gov? Google says a lot of things. I think they do weight tld’s higher than others, but the difference is probably not that large. But that’s me. Quadszilla would no better though.

]]> By: ChrisWebPub http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/01/what-would-you-do-with-your-own-edu/comment-page-1/#comment-6265 ChrisWebPub Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:32:12 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/01/what-would-you-do-with-your-own-edu/#comment-6265 Google doesn't value one TLD over another for links, they've explicitly said they don't. It is as Quad said, they just get loads of links normally and so are more valuable in that way. I would love a .edu, I run mostly education sites already and even if there is no technical benefit there is a PR or reputation benefit. It would lend instant credibility and probably help in gaining incoming links as it'd be easier to pass off as noncommercial (to combat the people out there who do not link to commercial sites for free). Google doesn’t value one TLD over another for links, they’ve explicitly said they don’t. It is as Quad said, they just get loads of links normally and so are more valuable in that way.

I would love a .edu, I run mostly education sites already and even if there is no technical benefit there is a PR or reputation benefit. It would lend instant credibility and probably help in gaining incoming links as it’d be easier to pass off as noncommercial (to combat the people out there who do not link to commercial sites for free).

]]> By: rose.water http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/01/what-would-you-do-with-your-own-edu/comment-page-1/#comment-6261 rose.water Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:24:53 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/01/what-would-you-do-with-your-own-edu/#comment-6261 When you say, <blockquote> 2) Google assigning Trust to certain schools </blockquote> does this happen algorithmically or does someone manually tinker with trust? I would guess that like everything else with google it happens automatically. Is it possible that the .edu and .gov trust comes from having quality rather than an outright trust of certain top-level domains? When you say,

2) Google assigning Trust to certain schools

does this happen algorithmically or does someone manually tinker with trust?
I would guess that like everything else with google it happens automatically.

Is it possible that the .edu and .gov trust comes from having quality rather than an outright trust of certain top-level domains?

]]> By: engtech http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/01/what-would-you-do-with-your-own-edu/comment-page-1/#comment-6260 engtech Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:48:48 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/01/what-would-you-do-with-your-own-edu/#comment-6260 Start up a boarding school for wayward girls, obviously. Start up a boarding school for wayward girls, obviously.

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