Do college websites send traffic or just link juice?

[Makaveli2007]

Say a university website has a German language department. And they have a links section (with a dozen or so links, not 100's).

Would you guys expect a link from such a page to send actual traffic (or just boost rankings)?

Of course, it depends on the size of the university, etc., but I was wondering if students actually ever looked on such pages or if professors/teachers put links there, and nobody ever clicks on them...lol...

Maybe anyone has some experience with that?

[wheel]

It probably varies with your niche. But if I had to guess, I'd say don't expect much if anything in the way of referral traffic.

[Makaveli2007]

thanks. How do you feel about them sending link juice, though? Is that one of those opportunities where traffic development and boosting rankings does not overlap, at all? I would expect them to send a decent amount of link juice, as the domains are so authoritative (if there are only around a dozen of links on their links page, not 100s).

[Makaveli2007]

I forgot to ask a question: Would you expect them to send a good amount of link juice (if there are only say 10 other links on the page)? To be honest, Im afraid I dont know enough about internal linking, yet to understand this.