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I made a list of popular .edu blogs of the year. You can get more good post and informative article to this websites.  Search it to the search engines you’ll find them on the top 10.
Here is my list:

1. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/ – about cyber law.
2. http://www.centenary.edu/blogs
3. http://www.buffalo.edu/gobulls
4. http://news.uns.purdue.edu -news blog
5. http://calendar.csmd.edu

I guess this is a good time to update the list. I’ve opened comments on this post. Please list any ed-tech bloggers that you feel should be added to the list (include name, position (if interested), and blogger urls).

Search engines are known for collecting information and using that information to rank certain sites higher than others. When they find a link on a high rated site, that link will be valued higher than if the same exact link was found on a lower ranked site. Links from sites with a .gov or .edu suffix are considered trusted and authority sites and are considered very valuable. Also, links that come from high ranked PageRank sites come with high value.

Though most SEOs know this, you do still read the occasional naysayer. There are even one or two very prominent industry stars that insist they are no more valuable than any other link. This is really just not true. If you run a test on 2 sites, and add .edu links to #1, and standard links to #2, you definitely will find site #1 to rank higher. At Edutextlink.com we have tested this, and we see very regular evidence that they .edu links are taken more seriously by search engines.

If you do any random search, you will very often see .edu and .gov sites ranking in the top 10, even when they are not the most relevant, or even when they are outdated. This is more proof that they are not treated the same as a .com or .net.

When you think about .edu links and what makes them rank higher, the answer is clear. If a new university were to open tomorrow, links from that site likely wouldn’t have much weight or value. But most of the .edu sites are very mature, huge, trusted sites that are full of information. And they have tens of thousands of inbound links and high PR. This is why the search engines are placing a weightier value on these links.