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How to get EDU backlinks

Tue, 08/07/2007 - 22:07 — admin

getting backlinks at harvard .edu would be great

EDU sites are considered trusted by Google and therefore highly in demand by webmasters. Getting backlinks at an .EDU or. GOV web site is great if you want to gain high google page rank (PR), and it might result in some traffic too !

 

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What you can do:

1) Design a theme for a Opensource-CMS like
Drupal, Wordpress or Joomla. Sometimes it happens that an .EDU or even .GOV site will use that theme and you're set

2) You can actually purchase .EDU backlinks if you look on http://forums.digitalpoint.com or in the Buy/Sell forum. Check their prices.

3) A trick to get .edu backlinks:
Once in a while you can find forgotten blogs on edu-pages which allow you to post. 1 of 50 blogs there might have a "no-follow" tag in the comments-section.

4) How to search for EDU sites, blogs and forums

Search for sites or blogs with similiar content to your site in Google

Using the Google operator site:.edu and site:.gov and the keywords of your blog should enable you to find an extensive list of sites related to your keyword. Those operators would filter and show you only sites from .EDU or .GOV domains related to your keyword.

Type in google:

site:.edu "keyword"

site:.gov "keyword"

Contact the webmaster and tell them about your blog, link to them first and then ask for permission to get linked on theirs. Maybe you get lucky...

Searching for .EDU Blogs and .EDU Forums

You can use the Google operators again.
With the following operators typed in Google you limit the Google search to blogs or forums with the .edu extension related to your keyword.

site:.edu inurl:blog "keyword"

site:.edu inurl:forum "keyword"

site:.gov inurl:blog "keyword"

site:.gov inurl:forum "keyword"

Participate in the discussions, don't SPAM. Leave your link at your desire.

You can further enhance your "search". Here an advanced .EDU scanning technique which you want to use if you want to exclude all blogs which are closed or where comments are not allowed:

Use those google operators:

site:.edu inurl:blog “comment” -”you must be logged in” -”posting closed” -”comment closed” “keyword”

This operator would exclude all "closed blogs" and only scan for blogs where you can leave a comment.

Happy hunting and lots of .EDU backlinks !

Georg

 

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Comments

Wed, 08/08/2007 - 02:20 — Anonymous

Your Trick?

Yah your trick? Yah my trick buddy you stole it from my blog.

http://blog.yourseoconsulting.com/2007/07/sneaky-way-to-check-your-googl...

Get your facts straight if you steal someones pointers its nice to provide a linkback. No sneakyness give credit where credit is due. Or,, google just might see you as a selfish blog with only 12 outbound links on it.

Sad.

Wed, 08/08/2007 - 12:29 — admin

i never read your blog

if you already make such an accusation then i'd appreciate a link where's it obvious that (as you state) i was copying "your" blog, Neither did i read/know your blog...nor does your link have *anything* to do with what i wrote. (Ok, i see you use the same google operators)

The google operators you can find in some blogs regarding this trick. Since this is the ONE method to do this searches.....the fact that we use the same operators (i assume) does NOT make me a copy-cat.

Do you think i copy other people's methods if i know you have to optimize certain tags for SEO...so optimizing a website's META tags would make me a copy-cat since i use the same method ? Just because this is a known methd and many people write about it.

I am very open for links to whoever i read something interesting AND giving credit..but please consider what you're saying before accusing someone of plainly copying a blog-entry.

 

Regards

 

 

Sat, 08/11/2007 - 04:37 — Anonymous

Webmaster

very very nice trick man, thanks for sharing your ideas!


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