TLA users, we have made some big design/usability tweaks to your "my account" area today. As always, Chris did a killer job. I think you will find it a lot easier to navigate around and manage your account with ease. As always, if there is anything else we can improve to make your life easier, let me know. Thanks!
A very common request I will hear is, "do you guys have access to any .edu or .gov links?". The answer is "no" and I have felt for some time that many link builders put too much emphasis on the search for these links. For many link builders, .edu and .gov links are the "dmoz" links of a couple of years ago. Meaning, I think the height of the DMOZ craze was about two years ago when many website owners thought getting listed in DMOZ was the magic pill to shoot to the top of the search results.
Now I am not saying that DMOZ, .edu, or .gov links are not links worth having but I do think their is some evidence that they are not the silver bullet to the top. You need many quality, or as Mr. Hagans would say "trusted links", and spending weeks on end trying to get the one .edu or .gov link is in my opinion not any more valuable then securing a few other non .edu or .gov quality links. Is there now some evidence of this? Maybe…(below quote taken from Blogoscoped who transcripted off Matt Cutt’s new seo video)
Somebody else asked about links
from .govâs and .euâs, and whether links from two level deep .govâs and
.euâs (like gov.pl), are worth the same as .gov. And the fact is, we
donât really have much in the way to say, this is a link from the ODP,
or from .gov, or .eu, to give that some sort of special boost. Itâs
just those sites tend to have higher PageRank, because more people link
to them (and reputable people link to them).
So this statement seems to say that Dmoz, .edu. and .gov links are not given special treatment from Google it is just that these links generally have higher PR and are just another trusted link. I say build quality links like crazy and not worry about these three alleged special links. What have you readers seen in regards to this? Are Dmoz, .gov, and .edu all glitter and no gold?
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