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Ok cool. I think what you are referring to are links that are redirected to a URL via JS. The case you have is clearly not, since link text is a traditional text link, it is just being hidden by JavaScript to incorporate the design of your page.

Why do schools And students alike want your referral traffic? " While the math example was exactly that, an example, yes the links are highly valuable to the students. I know they provide value to the students because the links are bringing in referral traffic (these links actually take up 3 of the top 5 sources of referral traffic). " Explain to me how that helps the student? They're not in search engine optimization the kids going to school you're talking about something that benefits yourself sir With 200 EDU links you will be manually audited and I guarantee most likely penalized unfortunately. Not saying this because I want to be that way soon because Google wants it to be that way it's so clear that if you at all try to abuse any of these things such as a high-profile EDU not only will you most likely be banned from Google you will be made to case study. You came to this form for advice. And you seem to be taking the advice that while I'm not saying anything negative about goes with what you want it to do with what you want to hear and that's not really beneficial to you so I'm going to tell you exactly what I know from researching .edu use and what is going to most likely happen considering that your Telling us your site is not relevant to what you will be publishing. Thus it is a business to make money off of kids who are in school is it not? I personally am not putting on trial I'm not trying to make it sound as bad as I might've made it sound but I don't care I'm just trying to prevent you from getting a whole Lotta trouble Just an update. Please Google link schemes or may I add links to benefit myself in any way using dot EDU & .Gov I believe you'll find a long list of people that felt similarly to the way you felt unfortunately Google does not like people benefiting off of other people like schools government institutions. Ask yourself this question Will you be creating content that will not be required to be linked to for any such reason whatsoever in order to access it? Does your content benefit you in any way shape way or form? Why do you believe that you should have the right to benefit from this content and cools private search index where they a private corporation get to choose who benefits and who doesn't mean at the end of the day why would it be best for them to go to you instead of you releasing it directly to the school? Lastly if you are going to be releasing content and it would benefit people in school today. You should be working hand-in-hand with the school itself and releasing the content with the administers approvals not talking to us about how you can get link juice from the dot EDU which by the way will not give you anymore Link juice then a.com.org.net domain but for the fact that.EDU use DOT com guys are regarded so highly they're given a lot of authority meaning they make wise decisions into who and why they link to somebody to if you were to make links from authorities as highs the Edus  you do use you would get the same thing so if this content is that valuable ask you again and unless it is as relevant you don't Benefit at all from thinking from it. Another thing that alarms me you seem to think that because.ED use might not lose their link power or link juice. Over time and I might be inclined to agree with you on that however Google doesn't care about that they care about your site they can take away the links pointing to your site that are dot EDU's and give you know power from them I want you to understand that take Your site and eliminate it from Google if they want to do that doesn't hurt the dot EDU links but it will hurt your business because it will not exist on the web. I just want this to be clear. And I think you know as well as everyone else that from what you've said that you're worried about putting this out there if it was 100% legitimate you would not be worried about it and you would post it so I think you've answered your own questions again sir and I urge you to either ask with your last private question to SEOmoz for advice That would be the wisest thing to do. This is the last month and you have into the 15th ask for free do it and you will know the answer. My honest belief is you will not do very well creating a company that is creating content for schools so that you can get link juice from the content you make targeted to get benefit off of edus