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This is the third post in The Link Building Cookbook series, showing you how and where to find the best places to add links to your websites to increase website traffic.
In every webmaster forum and blog out there, the community always goes nuts over finding ways to get universities and government sites to link to you. This post is dedicated to helping those people save their money and allow them to get an unlimited amount of .edu and .gov links for free, all through the power of google!
The ’site:’ feature in Google allows only results with that domain name or domain extension to show up. You can “hack” this feature to allow Google to find the most relevant university and government websites related to your sites.
Examples:
Google query: site:.gov blog [or site:.edu blog]
Results in: Google finds any .gov website that is running a blog or has a /blog/ directory. You can then visit these blogs and post comments (if you can find wordpress blogs like this one), and get hundreds of free .gov backlinks.
[Alternative queries: 'blog' 'blogs' 'wordpress' 'comment' 'guestbook' '2007' '2006']
Google query: site:.edu *your niche* + blog
For example: site:.edu internet marketing blog
The top result is a .edu blog that links to a non edu blog, but that blog is related and is PR3 and has edu backlinks. That is also a great relevant place to comment, even if it is not directly a .edu. On the other hand, the third result was a PR3 highly related .edu internet marketing blog with zero comments. That is easy .edu backlinks!
You can easily replicate these queries to fit your needs, and it is highly scalable. You can find .edu, .gov, and if you are lucky, .mil blogs. If you are not as picky, you can just search specifically for the blogs without the .edu or .gov extension, and you can find some high pageranked blogs on the first pages of results. Play around with it, enjoy it, it’s free!
Very good Ideas….my idea is a bit evil,Get a friend who has an edu website….and ask him to link you
I already knew this trick.
I would digg every single post of you if there would be a chance to do that
Thanks.
Aren’t blog comments NOFOLLOW ?
I have bookmarked so many of your pages now, great blog.
It is one of the best blogs on link building
This is a good idea as long as your comments are relevant to the blogs you are commenting on.
I’m currently doing this, but it seems most of the blogs are nofollowed. this does not help, does it?
Nofollow will not help you in Google, no. It will still give traffic + benefit you in the other main search engines.
Fantastic idea …. i have been helped by your new style of SEO .. Thanks for helping
Ever thought of using blogsearch, by Google? http://blogsearch.google.com
-George
Thank for the info I will use this.
I know of a blog search engine out there that shows only blogs without the nofollow tag. I will post it when I find out the URL.
Great post. This is going to help me out a lot. Thanks for all your help!
Thanks for the tips here. I just paid $7 for a little ebook a few weeks ago that taught me the same info. I wish I would have found this first. I could have bought 2 cafe mochas at B&N if I had.
I may have been a little late to this party because all of the blogs that i came across want you to register or seem to have errors. Maybe my niche is a little small… hmmmm… will try again later… Great blog site, glad i found this…
Nice finding! I’m gonna try it for sure
This needs to be niche specific… the only blogs I could find about travel were about someone’s vacation, and they were all no follow.
Awesome idea for those in a niche with some good .edu and .gov blogs out there!
i have had a hard time trying to get .edu, .gov on the search engine. I am glad that you gave this tip on finding these sites. Good job
Already starting to search for edu and .gov blogs to comment. Thanks, this was really helpful!
As someone pointed out, most blog comments are NOFOLLOW.
I have bookmarked your page thanks a lot
This will really helps me ..
2 days back when i check backlinks of my site it shows tht i dont have any linking from Edu and Gov sites
I am trying to find out find Result zero …
Now i am happy…I love the article …Which helps me to get more links thanks a lot
You can also search for:
site:edu cool links
or things like that - and find link pages from edu sites. I discussed this also in my article aboutbuilding edu links
Great tips, great articles. im very thanks..
Just found some interesting blogs with your keywords. Thanks
Thanks but still I am not satisfy with this google query search because when I search for .edu and .gov blogs then most of them are redirected and not accepting any external links.
thanks for your post.
It’s a pity most of the .edu and .gov blogs have no follow tags.
I have some posts on some .edu blogs and though they have nofollow tags, google recognises them as links in my webmaster tools.
Strange…
Roby
I thought .edu and .gov links has the same effect like .com. Anybody can correct me?