Comments on: Google Stirs Up Yet Another Linking Debate

By: links for 2008-02-02

links for 2008-02-02 — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:29:35 +0000

[...] Google Stirs Up Yet Another Linking Debate | AccuraCast Search Daily News SEO professionals starting paying more attention to links from .edu and .gov domains after Google’s update nicknamed Jagger, where reciprocal links were devalued and more importance was paid to links from sites having greater authority (tags: Linking Debate Google) [...]

By: JohnMu

JohnMu — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:22:07 +0000

Matt Cutts says it a bit clearer when asked if a link is better if it comes from a .edu: “The short answer is: no, it is not.”

I hope that clears up some of the confusion .

By: Abhijit

Abhijit — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:15:32 +0000

It’s true that links from .edu or .gov site are neither easily available free of cost nor through payment. How then do we get those links? Why would they link to our site? They might also have some criteria of relevancy.

By: AccuraCast

AccuraCast — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:09:35 +0000

Just because Google lists 5 .edu domains at the top of the heap for Digits.com does not mean that .edu links are more important. It simply means Google considers these links to be relevant or representative of some of the websites that link to Digits.com.

Also, if it’s not true, perhaps you should call Google employee John Mueller out on his bluff?

(John’s post about .edu links)

As for Jill Whalen… she did mention this in her blog, so give the “devil” her due.

I’m still not convinced one way or the other. My thoughts are that it counts, just not as much as some webmasters like to believe.

Case in point… this website also has a number of .edu links pointing to it, none of which show up on the first page in the Google listing simply because they’re not as relevant!

By: James

James — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:36:55 +0000

Not true whatsoever: Case in point.

http://www.digits.com – pr8

11,100 google backlinks

look at their backlinks, 5 of their first 10 most powerful links are from .edu sites.

I can’t believe that people still listen to Jill Whalein she has been old news for years.