: Importance of having EDU backlinks I've built a few links on 50 EDU / GOV websites. 1 of them has PR 8, 3 of them have PR 7, 8 of them PR6,7 of them PR5,12 of them PR4,8 of them PR3,

@Kevin317

Sites do not have PageRank. Pages have PageRank. PageRank is per page, not per website. So what you are seeing is the PageRank of those sites' home pages.
PageRank is not nearly as important as it used to be. Nowadays it has much less value. In fact, few people, if any, consider an important ranking factor in Google's algorithm.
Who says having links from those websites will increase your domain authority? You don't have links on those sites' home pages and those other pages probably are worthless if they are so easy to get. I also suspect those pages are off-topic for your website which make them worth even less. I would say you should expect those links to do nothing for you at all.
If you're asking about PR then it isn't "a fashion thing" to you. At least not if your goal is to actually be successful. After all, someone who wants to be successful doesn't go chasing things that have no value, right? :)

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@BetL925

No-one can tell you exactly when the PR will be updated, since that is fully under google's control. Anyway, as Matt Cutts asserts, .edu and .gov backlinks have no more weight than any other extension.

I also find this quote on the web:


Are .gov and .edu back links still considered more "link juice" than
the common back link?

This is a common misconception--you don't get any PageRank boost from
having an .edu link or .gov link automatically. Hah John, I beat you
to it! If you get an .edu link and no one is linking to that .edu
page, you're not going to get any PageRank at all because that .edu
page doesn't have any PageRank. Matt Cutts

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