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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye

Usefulness of EDU links

Nobody ahs the exact way that search engines rank websites online, but people does know how it works roughly. Basically what is a called a search engine spider is sent to websites and crawls them to analyze the data on the site? Analysis will usually look at things such as the amount of links the website has.

Links counted by a spider are called back links. If the spider sees that you have lost of links on your website then they will give you a better ranking. Linking to sites with good link extensions is also helpful.

Good credible sites are those such as yahoo, if you have a link to site like this your rankings are likely to benefit from it. This same principle works with edu.

When linking to sites the site type is a good thing you think about. Search engines like links to sites that are relevant. The domains that have extensions like edu, gov are also good examples of sites the search engines will respect and help boost your rankings.

The sites mentioned above will boost credibility, because they are domains that can only be applied for by learning institutions and are not for marketing purposes.

Qualifying for an edu domain means that you are a learning facility of some sort so search engines will give sites linked to them some good seo attention.

It is not officially proven edu domains will boost rankings, but it is clear they hold some good authority in search engines, which means they will have some good importance.

If you do comment on edu websites such as blogs keep the comments on topic and relevant so they can get approved and your site ranked well.

When putting comments on an edu website make sure you comment properly and relevantly so your link is acknowledged.