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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye

The Magic of EDU Links

Some have said that the easiest way to get your website ranked in the search engines is to get edu links pointing to it. There is truth in this as it is widely know, that websites with an edu extension help with seo.

The edu extension is seen as a top level domain by search engines. It is one of the first ranked of the six top domain name extensions, others are .com, .net, .org, .mill and .gov. Edu extensions were first used in the United states and for educational institutions also. Edu domains are reserved mainly for universities.

Websites that have edu domains must qualify as learning institutions and have a qualification from the relevant organisation. Other countries have similar extensions such as .mx for Mexico and .uk for the United Kingdom and .ph for the Philippines.

Because of the credibility behind edu domains it is a good to have a link to your website from one of them. Seo rankings are help greatly by and edu link. The good think about a link from an edu is that the site is informational and search engines like this.

When getting links from an edu website you should ensure that it is relevant to where you are pointing it, so if you have a website related to the bible, you should link to it with an edu websites based on bible theology for relevance sake.

Spamming edu blogs is frowned upon so you should avoid this at all costs. You should always make your links from edu relevant.