Free PR9 .edu Links

February 25, 2008 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: Link Building 

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Over the last few days, I have seen many people selling the “secret location” where you can get free PR9 .edu links. The threads on the DigitalPoint forums have had tons of sales ($50 each), and with such a high price you can be sure that people searched every nook and cranny to find if it was legit. Just by using a lot of free “questions” that were brought up in the thread, I did a little research. People in the forum thread were complaining that the site was running SSL (httpS://), stopping the search engines from viewing it.

Sure enough, the location was leaked after the user was banned from DP for spamming. While the pages ARE indexed even though they are HTTPS, Google is only caching the forum topics and not the actual posts.

The million dollar question is, will these links actually pass any pagerank/authority to your links? Only Google knows, but for now it sure doesn’t hurt to spend 5 minutes making a few forum replies.

Enjoy the free “PR9″ links.
https://alum.mit.edu/discuss/index.jspa.

Because I do not believe that these links will provide any long term benefit, I will be excluding this from the link building cookbook series. Feel free to use this method or pass it up and stick to what is guaranteed to work.

*The forum was originally leaked by this post*

Comments

22 Comments on Free PR9 .edu Links

  1. Rakesh on Mon, 25th Feb 2008 5:55 pm

    2. Well..looks like all webmasters will jump on poor MIT forum..hehe..great tip though..

  2. Breakaway on Tue, 26th Feb 2008 2:24 am

    3. Yah, thanks for the tip and the caution. Sucks for those poor souls who paid $50 hoping to really increase their site’s ranking with this.

  3. Sudarshan on Tue, 26th Feb 2008 5:26 am

    4. Thanks for sharing it…But I saw it in Johncow blogs and I was wondering how people could sell such crappy things…Looks like paypal refunding is on its way by the people who bought it

  4. Binh Nguyen on Tue, 26th Feb 2008 8:03 am

    5. I didn’t see John Cow mentioned that person was banned from DP. But I did check the threats really have some PR like 4 and 5.

  5. cashmarble.com on Wed, 27th Feb 2008 1:28 am

    6. Hahah the evil way.. :) well it might works…

  6. Affiliate Confession on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 11:34 pm

    7. I’m not showing any PR at all in IE 6 for this site or any backlinks. Not sute what the benefit would be. I actually contacted this guy selling these links in DP. I’m glad I didn’t make a purchase.

  7. Stefanie on Tue, 4th Mar 2008 10:10 am

    8. …And this is exactly why I don’t do much shopping in the Digital Point forums. I don’t see PR for this site, either.

  8. Gunter on Sat, 22nd Mar 2008 12:19 pm

    9. I look around, and didn’t find any PR pages. Did anybody find high PR page?

  9. Gabriel Intercambio on Tue, 17th Jun 2008 10:46 am

    10. Unfortunatelly, it seems not to have any PR anymore.

    Anyway, the forum is DOFOLLOW and seems that you can register and for free, even you not being part of the MIT.

    Five minutes, no hurt to try.

  10. yut on Sun, 17th Aug 2008 11:57 pm

    11. Thanks …

  11. geld lenen on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 2:01 pm

    12. Maybe it’s too good to be true.

  12. Blinds on Sun, 16th Nov 2008 6:59 am

    13. Hi Colin,

    I now believe this site is pagerank 6, you may or may not want to update this post..

  13. MWYS on Fri, 26th Dec 2008 4:04 am

    14. I’m not seeing any PR with the google toolbar – what does this mean?

  14. Anna Meenaghan, Contemporary Art on Wed, 14th Jan 2009 10:50 am

    15. Thanks ever so much for clearing this link business up for me. I am an artist and have only recently ventured onto the internet. To be honest, most of us artists do not understand how to promote ourselves online. And the link building issue I find very confusing. I found your article very helpful. Thanks a lot for that.

  15. jonsoncal on Fri, 15th May 2009 1:57 am

    16. this might be work, but i’m looking for free backlinks from pr10, i think it can be possible

  16. Dalam Hensi on Tue, 9th Jun 2009 1:52 pm

    17. Thanks for the tip.Thumbs up!

  17. xhtmlcssexpert on Mon, 29th Jun 2009 1:24 am

    18. this is awesome tip i like to try it, nice article

  18. free pr10 link on Tue, 11th Aug 2009 7:52 pm

    19. Thanks for the tip. Any time you’re able to get on a high PR website, it’s a ggod thing. Kudos on the blog post.

  19. moogy on Sun, 20th Dec 2009 10:40 pm

    20. Thanks very much! Guess its worth a shot

  20. Dan Green on Tue, 20th Apr 2010 8:30 am

    21. Amazing.Thanks you very much guys!

  21. Kotaro on Mon, 7th Jun 2010 12:24 pm

    22. Thanks, I’ll give it a try!!

  22. fullbet on Fri, 9th Jul 2010 5:06 pm

    23. Can you give more details about this article?

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