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Title: Does anyone have a .edu website?
Post by: Monkeyleg on March 07, 2005, 01:30:55 PM

Please PM me if you do. I'd like to test a theory that's been posted on a webmaster forum.

Title: Does anyone have a .edu website?
Post by: nico on March 07, 2005, 01:34:34 PM

I have some .edu webspace, but not a site.  Would that work?

Title: Does anyone have a .edu website?
Post by: Azrael256 on March 07, 2005, 05:25:13 PM

I'm one of the few unfortunate souls charged with managing my university's webserver.  I don't do web design, so don't blame me for it.  

I'm dreadfully curious.  What's the theory?

Title: Does anyone have a .edu website?
Post by: jefnvk on March 07, 2005, 05:45:23 PM

I, too, am curious as to why you would need a .edu domain.

Title: Does anyone have a .edu website?
Post by: Monkeyleg on March 07, 2005, 05:52:11 PM

The theory is that a link from an .edu or .gov website to another website is considered more authoritative by search engines such as Google, and would thus boost the site with the incoming link in the rankings.

It doesn't make sense to me. But enough webmasters have said that it does that I'm trying to figure out how to measure the effect.

The link would have to be to a site that's almost an unknown. One that's in the search engines' indexes, but isn't going through  the daily fluctuations that the top-ranking sites do.

I'm sure that there's at least one THR member who has a low-ranking site that would be appropriate for this experiment.

Please let me know if you have the authority to add a link from your site.

Title: Does anyone have a .edu website?
Post by: client32 on March 07, 2005, 05:59:57 PM

I can see search engines doing this.  A .edu or .gov should be a real entity, not always the case though.