It is now being reported that LinkAdage and the Pickering Institue have teamed up to open up a blackhole of unscrupulous actions by offering anyone blog space for rent...on an .edu domain. This in effect allows ANY average-joe-schmo to post their blogs under a .edu sub-domain without actually being affiliated with any sort of educational institute. Dirty pool in my book.
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That's not the whole picture though. You are right, .edu domain is just an extension in Google's eyes, there is no special "edu bonus" for the domain. However many .edu domains *happen* to be authority domains, they are usually old (domain creation-date), with many aged links from trusted sources. That's just a typical link profile for an .edu and why they are so attractive normally.
Of course a .com, .net or .mobi could have built up exactly the same link profile. In that respect .edu is nothing special.
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Just because a site is a .edu, does not mean it gets special attention from Google.
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That's not the whole picture though. You are right, .edu domain is just an extension in Google's eyes, there is no special "edu bonus" for the domain. However many .edu domains *happen* to be authority domains, they are usually old (domain creation-date), with many aged links from trusted sources. That's just a typical link profile for an .edu and why they are so attractive normally.
Of course a .com, .net or .mobi could have built up exactly the same link profile. In that respect .edu is nothing special.