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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye

Magic of EDU Links

It is well know by many seo specialists that getting a link from an edu domain can help rankings in the search engines. Many have suspected that an edu link was worth its weight in gold and some have gone to great lengths to show it.

Edu extensions credibility com from the fact they are seen as top level domains. There are six top level domains which are .gov, .net, .com, .edu, .mill and .edu. The edu extension first came about in the United States for use with educational entities, mostly for schools and universities.

The qualification process to get an edu extension is not easy which is what lends to its credibility. To get and edu extension the school or university in question has to qualify by presenting the right qualification to the right agency that supplies edu websites.

A link from an edu website gives increased credibility the website linking to it because it is respected by search engines. Seo rankings can be helped because of this. Edu domains are informational in nature and this is a good thing for rankings.

It is always good to get a link from an edu website that is relevant to yours, so if you are running a website on cats and dogs, you should find a post that is related to this and link that toy you websites. Search engines are very much against irrelevant linking strategy, and it can be seen as spam.

Never spam and edu website as you are like to get you links taken off the site and not approved at all.