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Difficult to obtain in practice without a significant creative campaign, and overall those links are as valuable as the inbound links to those sites and pages. Being .edu or .gov inherently does not give these websites more value from a link standpoint. The fact that they are .gov and .edu draws links to them - and that is the reason why most .edu and .gov links on quality, trusted contextual pages count for alot.

excellent points. thanks very much for the inputs

I suspect this as well but cannot find a source to confirm it

As I understand this issue, if the paid link is aimed at getting traffic and not aimed at getting link juice it should be ok but how does one know if link juice is being passed by the link before the link is placed. It can certainly be checked after for no follow.

Thanks very much. Makes sense and I had not thought of this.

thanks very much for the clarification

Sorry my mis-understanding, you will need to do somthing about your 301 problem. you need to look into a .htaccess file

thanks Ryan I will do as you suggest

very helpful responses. the video was particularly insightful. thanks again for the answers

great feedback, thanks

thanks very much Ryan - Brett

thanks for the additional input Eric. Google + button also on my site

Oh yes... it was a mistyping from my part, sorry