Buy All the .edu Links You Want
This is kind of a disgusting thing for a .edu site to do — but they’re doing it. From http://blogs.adison.edu/ (Google PageRank = 4) you can “donate” $35 a month get a WordPress blog hosted at their site. Here’s a quote from them:
Blogs are a $35 donation per month or $320 if you pay for your donation once a year ($100 Savings). This helps cover critical bandwidth, updates and support.
Wow, if I was a web host and made people pay $35 a month just to have a simple WordPress blog hosted, I’d never get a sale (BTW, you can get a free blog hosted a wordpress.com). Also, that “$100 Savings” sounds a little bit like a sales pitch to me. 
They all also have a resources directory (PageRank = 5), that you can buy a link for them to put on for $40 per year (better than the prices on text-link-ads):
To get into the resource directory a donation of $40 per year per link is required. This donation goes to reviewing your site and to making the site better for students.
Ohhhh, do the students get paid, too?
Bottom line, if .edu sites can get penalized, this one should be.
PS: I put rel=”nofollow” on the links to the .edu site.
Recognizing a need and filling it isn’t so bad…especially when you can get .edu links for cheap
adison.edu is a scam edu site - NOT a university by any means, just some guy trying to make a buck. Lets say you don’t care, he’s massively diluted his site to the point it will give no link juice.
exactly no link juice! One domain listed is netmovers.net a UK company…
I put into Google Search Box link:www etc to find only 31 backlinks; yet of yahoo they have over 4,000.
Within those 31 no edu links were listed - so no juice. $35 therefore is a waste.
Well researched website.
Thanks from Spain