Edu discount pages fair game?

[cgman]

Does anyone know if .edu discount pages are still good for link building? There's been a lot of fuss about Google reducing the value of edu links, but what do you think?

[NakulGoyal]

When they are natural, they are good. When there's manipulation (not natural) they can be detected by the bots and can face penalty.

I would recommend you read..

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2049969/Overstock.com-Lands-in-Googles-Penalty-Box-Over-Links-for-Discounts-Deal

and

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2049675/Google-Lifts-Overstock.com-Penalty

[Thos003]

The TLD alone does not determine the value of the link. There are some pretty spammy .edu links out there. For the most part .EDUs gain google's trust because of the quality content and number of inbound links to them as a reference. Avoid spammy .edu pages. Get links from good forums on .edu's, or discount pages where it makes sense.