SEO: Project Blog

Well it seems i may be falling at the first hurdle. I have made a few unique posts to my new free .EDU blog and also done a small amount of social bookmarking a linking with quality sites of the same niche. BUT…..

It still has NOT been indexed by any of the main search engines and get zero traffic!! There are numerous (100+) other blogs indexed in google some with a small PR rating too.

It has only now been 3 weeks i suppose so plenty of time yet, but with many new domains google has been indexing them all within 3-4 days at most. Maybe that is me getting lucky sometime as i keep reading horror stories, but i had hoped this blog would at least be indexed by now.

I will keep all readers informed over the next few days and see if it gets indexed then hopefully the incoming links will increase the PR. But that could be well over 12 months plus at this rate.!!

Having seen mentions of free .edu blogs on a few forums i have done a bit of digging to see if there is anything in them for the SEO webmaster.

Yes a nice .edu backlink to your site is all well and good, but if its off a PR0 blog, will it make a difference, Just because its a .edu ??? I dont think it will.
It will be no different than any other pr0 blog link.

But… What if you created a nice blog on the .edu with some nice unique content, socially bumped the profile of it and got some nice links to it so its gained some pr in its own right? Would this make a difference? Honextly i dont know. Peoples opinions seem well divided over this. Surely a PR4/5/6/7 link back to your site would have the same authority with off a .com or .edu

I know many webmasters would love backlinks off high PR edu domains. I suppose its all down to personal preference and you ‘take’ on it. Personally im gonna give a free Wordpress MU blog a go and see what comes off it.
Only thing to loose is a bit of time.

Please let me have your comments below.