Run your own .edu blog for $50/month
We all know that having a backlink from .edu domain names will increase your search engine result position (SERP) and possible your pagerank too. Because search engines assume that since educational websites are linking to you, your site must be of good value.
For this reason, some people are taking advantage, especially those who are the webmaster of .edu websites. Here is one such site www.pi.edu. PI.Edu is offering a service where you can create your own .edu based blog on their (edu based) domain name. Of course it’s not free, they are charging $50 a month for this.
I am not sure how much people charge for text-links on edu sites. But if you think you can startup a blog and make a popular on edu domain name. I am sure you can make a lot of money with it.
As for me, I barely have enough time to blog on this own blog, I wouldn’t be able to manage a new blog. What’s your thoughts on this?
URL to Blog Network: blogs.pi.edu/2008/04/09/own-an-edu-blog/
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By Webmaster on Apr 16, 2008
I’ve never heard like this :-D
By baby on Apr 16, 2008
Not a bad idea. It is possible to buy EDU domain?
By shawal on Apr 16, 2008
Its a very good tactic for backlink but you have to have knowledge to do .edu site and its quit costly….
This is only my opinion…
By Elections photos on Apr 16, 2008
I think search engines will exclude this site from its rank database.
By Television on Apr 16, 2008
I think that if you will have a good blog with some great stuff on it, the tld of the blog will not be important.
By SEOrious Results on Apr 16, 2008
Open prostitution like this will inevitably end up on the blogs….hahahah….and believe you me there are loads of search engineers like Matt Cutts from Google that keep their fingers on the pulse….they’ll manually devalue the link juice from thatr specific .edu domain.
So you might have a bit of short term gain at a very high price. Rather concentrate on quality content that eill establish you as an authority.
By Symbian software on Apr 17, 2008
I wonder if they offer e-mail address too.
By Dining Tables on Apr 17, 2008
By stretching a point I suppose one could call a blog like this as an educational one, though I personally would not like to do so. Perhaps it is my conditioning or value system or whatever, but such a practice will leave a bad taste in my mouth, though it may well be legal.
By PS3 on Apr 17, 2008
Half of the SEO “experts” out there seem to suggest that .edu backlinks are valuable, the other half say it is a fallacy.
Who is right?
By Make Money Blogging on Apr 17, 2008
There always seems to be someone selling links to .edu blogs that you can use. I bit once and out of 5 links I got 2 up and running and they were shut down within 3 days.
I think it has to be a tactical marketing decision with content ready to post and set it all up to auto update before the purchase goes ahead.
Do you get a sub domain for the above?
By Futon-Matt on Apr 17, 2008
I don’t get caught up in the whole edu thing.
By Eddie Poh on Apr 17, 2008
Mr. Big G is going to flex his muscle again. Just like he did on link selling.
By Games on Apr 17, 2008
That edu blog is completely worthless - just look at the number of inbound links and lack of Google page rank. Just having an EDU domain doesn’t mean the link is valuable. EDU domains have a lot of value in Google generally because the institutions they represent are credible and have lots of credible inbound links from other credible sources. Just having an EDU blog on a domain with little or no credible inbound links is a waste.
By Make Money Blogging on Apr 18, 2008
Nice post Games, So you might aswell build up a blog that doesn’t cost you $50 extra a month and save some cash.
By ankara nakliyat on Aug 5, 2008
EDU domains have a lot of value in Google
By Twin Pregnancy And Beyond on Sep 3, 2008
It’s a nice concept, but likely won’t work well for rankings. Google is just too smart for that kind of manipulation.