www.somesite.edu/~myname

Value of inks from personal pages

[McMohan]

I have a link to my site from the personal page on a .edu site (as denoted by ~). Alexa says "Note: Personal pages are ranked separately from web sites"

Basic question - "Does this link have the same benefit of a .edu site?"

[robotsdobetter]

Simple, yes. I see personal web pages rank higher than business web pages all the time. It would be somewhat hard for Google to know which is personal and not, at this time Google is having a hard time telling apart spam and non-spam sites.

[hp11]

I have learned not to take anything to seriously from Alexa. In my opinion, they are more interested in promoting the value of their service instead of putting value in their services and stats.

[arran]

In my experience, all links from .edu (including .edu/~personal) are very helpful indeed.

[McMohan]

In my experience, all links from .edu (including .edu/~personal) are very helpful indeed

Interesting. So the consensus so far seems to be the link value from .edu main site or personal pages are same. I am sure there are many link savvy alumni who can recover the cost of studies by offering links from their personal pages :)

BTW, the link which I got from the this .edu personal page (An alexa 2000, PR5) about 2 months back hasn't atleast helped me gettin out of the sandbox.

[prom]

Interesting to see a thread on this topic. During Jupiter Media's last SES Conference in Chicago, I asked Jen Fitzpatrick (Director of Engineering for G, in the "meet the crawlers" seminar) a related question. Does G place higher relevance on .edu links? Unfortunately, she would not disclose the answer :-(, and ran about the question.

[awall19]

>So the consensus so far seems to be the link value from .edu main site or personal pages are same.

probably depends on link structure. the closer to the home page or popular pages on the site the better.

>Does G place higher relevance on .edu links? Unfortunately, she would not disclose the answer

there is high ranking result for "seo" on Google which has less than a couple hundred backlinks. many of those links are from .edu sites.