.gov and .edu free directories?

[Menard]

Anybody know of any .gov or .edu directories, or sites, which offer free listings?

[SensoVision]

Anybody know of any .gov or .edu directories

you mean directory of sites with .edu and .gov domain? as if so I didn't seen anything like this myself, but I really didn't hunt for them.

or sites, which offer free listings?

you mean just directories which accept free listing, as if so there are number of them, some worth to place listing and some don't.

[Menard]

I was just looking for directories or sites wit .edu or .gov domains which will link for free.

I was using a page strength analysis and two of the categories it turns out that they use in determining the potential of your site's ranking is whether or not you are linked to by any .gov or .edu domains.

Do you know anything about this?

[SensoVision]

some time ago I've read about artificially adjusted rank for .edu and .org(I think) domains but didn't remember anything about .gov
I'm not sure if .org domains are still affected by this rule anyway as they are widely used right now as for .edu it would be nice to know if it's truth or not, but I doubt that there are any clear evidence of this could be found.

I was using a page strength analysis and two of the categories it turns out that they use in determining the potential of your site's ranking is whether or not you are linked to by any .gov or .edu domains.

Do you refer to some program here?

Maybe someone else have more information on this question?

[Menard]

Here is the tool to which I was referring. Give it a try; it's free. Let me know what you think of the results.

[SensoVision]

very interesting tool, Bob, thanks for sharing it!
I've checked few sites and it seems that it use pretty interesting meta algo based on algorithms of other search engines, maybe they should build an search engine based on all this data?
Regarding .gov and .edu domains please note that they are looking for them on Yahoo and it's quite possible that Y! actually use such adjustment.

Anyway I still can't remember any sites with such domains offering free listing(I knew one with directory but it was listing university related sites only and I can't find it now )

[Manu]

mmmmmmmm....... Seomoz's page strength tool is becoming quite popular. Many of the seo's are considering it rather than pagerank to buy links. But, one should remember one thing that pagerank actually helps to decide your search rankings (some would disagree) while seomoz's page strength tool checks your google rankings to decide your page strength. But it is a good tool which can be used while buying links.

Returning to your question, I do not think there are any free directories with .gov or .edu links.

[Andy]

.gov are the best sites to get links from since they are the most difficult and trustworthy sites i.e. run by govenment departments to give information to the people of a country. .mil may be even better LOL Please tell me no one is selling a tool to get you listed on these sites 

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[Emily27]

How does one go about getting links from a .gov or an .edu site?

[Manu]

How does one go about getting links from a .gov or an .edu site?

There is simply no way to get .gov links IMO. You can only get them if you know the webmaster personally or your content/resource is as good that he/she decides to link back to you.

And .edu links - From the students.

[Menard]

mmmmmmmm....... Seomoz's page strength tool is becoming quite popular. Many of the seo's are considering it rather than pagerank to buy links. But, one should remember one thing that pagerank actually helps to decide your search rankings (some would disagree) while seomoz's page strength tool checks your google rankings to decide your page strength. But it is a good tool which can be used while buying links.

I am doubting some of the validity of the page strength checker.

It is using a social bookmarking site for one of its determinations. So, I went to that site, joined, and bookmarked some of my own sites. My page strength on one of those sites is now higher due to it picking up that link. That's just a little too easy to manipulate.

[Manu]

are you talking about http://del.icio.us/ Menard?

[Menard]

are you talking about http://del.icio.us/ Menard?

Yes.

[Manu]

I think they already admit that listing in del.icio.us is a factor. Also, it is based on reverse engineering. While a tool should determine the rank of a site in google, this tool eventually takes help from the site's google rankings to assign its page strength.

[Menard]

I think they already admit that listing in del.icio.us is a factor.

Uh, yeah, that was my point. They have an entry in the results page for the site, which is how I got the idea of joining and bookmarking with that site. It does not seem very valid to me that one bookmark on a site should increase your site's page strength. That seems like giving a single site too much weight in their determination factors. The one bookmark on a social bookmarking site might influence their ranking, but I doubt it is going to influence Google's opinion one way or another about one's site; or Yahoo; or MSN. So, what is the point of giving that much weight to a social bookmarking site? And does Technorati really have that much weight?