onmark - 7:09 am on Nov 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

What i think....if both your .edu site and .com site have the same backlinks and of equal power........then i would say that an .edu link will provide more of trust to your domain as compared to and .com link.

It is difficult to prove this statement because there are no chances that you can have all backlinks of equal quality to a website.

A .edu site with 200 backlinks but if all are less trusted then a .com site, then a .com link would be much better and vice versa.

But when we say backlinks of equal quality then i would preffer an .edu links thats because it represents an informational material on a web site. Preferably G would provide more priority to a .edu link.