Educational and Governmental ref. backlinks/domains
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I have two question in my mind, decided to first time post and ask the community for better information.
1-How important Educational and Govermental Ref Domains/backlinks are? Shell we try to gain them? Or they are just like the others backlinks/domains?
2-When we break down the backlinks to Images-textlinks. What percent of backlinks should be images? (for info my website has 97 percent textlink and 3 percent image backlinks)
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WIth reference to your question on edu & gov backlinks, it wouldn't be worth spending a lot of your effort on gaining them. Matt Cutts mentioned once in a video response that .edu & .gov backlinks do not necessarily worth more than .com links (http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2010/01/do-you-still-care-about-gov-or-edu-links.html).
Besides, it is important to obtain more backlinks from sites related to your business/niche, as compared to getting backlinks from edu & gov pages which have no relation to your business/niche. It won't help much in building up your site's authority if you go for the latter.
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IMHO .edu and .gove links if acquired in the right manner without any spamming tactics or redirects are still very effective for link building.
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The percentage of image links really depends on your vertical. If you own a photography site, it might so happen that a high percentage of your links would be from images shared on different sites across the net. The keyword here is "natural". If it appears natural for your site to have a high percentage of inbound links from images, then you should not have anything to worry about.
Good article on this topic here.
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