How To Find and Get .Edu BackLinks for SEO
66It is not a secret that backlinks from .edu domains help increasing your SERP (search engine result page) rankings. Since most .edu websites are universities and other educational foundations, it is a hard and time consuming process to get a high quality backlink from a high PR .edu domain page, but not impossible. I will tell you how to get it without any spamming.
The WRONG way of Getting .edu backlinks
I will first explain how most SEOs do this in a wrong way. Time to time, an .edu page is discovered in net where you can leave comments with dofollow and they turn into link farms of viagra type links after a short time. What is the sense of having a link with other thousands? No matter it is dofollow or not it is still spam and at the end, it will hurt your rankings.
The CORRECT way of Getting .edu backlinks
You should behave exactly what big players in your niche are doing this. Since I own a couple of gadget and technology related sites, closely track highly reputed sites like gizmodo.com, engadget.com etc.
Since universities are for scientific and technological development purposes, you will see lots of projects revealing on the pages of students and academical staff. Gizmodo and Engadget sites closely track such activities and write on their blogs if there is something really unique and attention getting. As a result, some .edu pages give them a backlink mostly in Press Coverage sections of their pages.
You should do the same. For a technology blog, first find the research or project on .edu site and then write a comprehensive article about it. It should be very well written. Then, email them saying that you have made a Press Release. Surely, not all of them will backlink to you. But, after some time, you will notice that a few .edu sites really give backlinks to your pages. The most important part is to keep unique high quality content. Even you don't get a backlink, there is nothing to worry. You will still get free search engine traffic for the quality of your article and possible low competition of scientific topics.
How to Find .edu Sites Pointing a Domain
It is very simple using Yahoo Search. Type this.
linkdomain:mysite.com +site:.edu
Just replace mysite.com with the site you are investigating. For Gizmodo, it would be ;
linkdomain:gizmodo.com +site:.edu
Voila! There are over 4,000 result pages pointing to them. Think twice the reasons why not every gadget site can't compete them. Just check where their backlinks are coming and which .edu sites like to be press-covered :)
I put an example screenshot below a backlink of Gizmodo from a PR 5 page about a newly developed low cost 3D system. It was a perfect target to grab a backlink.
http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Research/3DDisplay
As you can see Gizmodo get super link juice for keywords "3D",
"Technologies" and a combination of them for exact match searches.
If
you further do an even broad search in Google for 3D technologies
phrase, notice that Gizmodo takes the second place beating 51,000,000
result pages !
Guess with what page this great achievement comes ?!
CommentsLoading...
It is true if your link stays with hundreds of other useless links
Yes, hat's off to the author for pointing out both the correct and incorrect way to go about this method. It's all about ethical seo and respect for the blog owner.
Being in a competitive niche, I know what Muratos said is 100% true. And as you're building your links, don't do it too quickly, especially for .edu and .gov links -- even if you have 100s of opportunity for them. You'll only be seen as google bombing. I tested...1 per month is more than sufficient for newer sites.
Everybody knows that the key to making successful backlinks like this are by posting comments who are related to the context of the post (just like what I'm doing now).
oH! great! this ( linkdomain:mysite.com +site:.edu) is really a nice way to search edu site.
This a great for SEO, I will check then apply for get high quality backlinks.
thanks. good backlink info
It's all about ethical seo and respect for the blog owner.
Ohh..This is Great for our SEO Services..we will check and apply.
Thanks.
Having 1 .gov backlink is better then having 100s of normal backlinks.
Thanks for the great tip btw
btw you can find .edu site by typing
"site:.edu" in google search :)
I've been trying to add some .edu backlinks. Will give this a try.
Just to let you know that Yahoo returns this error message:
We did not find results for: linkdomain:weightwatchers.com +site:.edu. Try the suggestions below or type a new query above.
linkdomain:gizmodo.com +site:.edu
Do not work my friend. =(
@Ace : You are right. I don't know why but now it goes to site explorer with no mention of edu. Possibly, some change is in effect at Yahoo search.
Backlinks can definitely help you get ranked on Google, Yahoo or Bing! I have a few sites and I am constantly creating backlinks to help my page rank! Nice article and tips. I also have a website about backlinks, http://adspro24.com/ please visit it anytime you want. I have a few tips there. Thanks again!
is there any way to purchase .edu domains?
I don't think that .edu have any extra weightage now a days
Informative article. Shame the "linkdomain:gizmodo.com +site:.edu
" command doesn't work anymore though.
Good post..but there are certain boundaries.. or we can say SO CALLED limitations in getting backlinks from .edu..
to be more precise.. play slow.. play safe.. wait for right chance to get backlinks from high pr n .edu sites.. :)
.edu links are hard to get for sure. If you can provide edu websites with some sort of value, you have a better chance of getting linked. Maybe you could even offer to improve their website layout for the link? Just a thought.
Thanks for this article but .edu and .gov sites are very strict now specially in backlinking. Is there any tip in getting .edu and .gov backlinks without included in the spam list?
Trying to add some .edu backlinks and .gov to my site. Will give this a try. Should we allow SE to Find the links or can we just ping?
Thanks for the advice on getting .edu backlinks... really need this info and we are going to give this a shot!
Thank you for the tips but i will have to agree that "linkdomain:gizmodo.com +site:.edu" isn't working. Anyways, no worries m8 thnx for the article ;)
Hey Muratos....Kevin Stacey here. I wanted to stop by to add some value to the post. I've abandoned spamming EDU blogposts with low quality comments when I find out that I could own my own EDU blog.
I've been accumulating EDU blogs 5 at a time and linking to individual blog posts, then getting them bookmarked on Fiverr.
Here's where I got them:
http://www.edublogfinder.com/buy-edu-blog-backlink
Write a quality post and link to your single blogposts and articles. Then get them bookmarked and pinged.
Results seen in 2-3 days for mid to low competition keywords.
Good luck and keep making money!
tg_dan 2 years ago
``No matter it is dofollow or not it is still spam and at the end, it will hurt your rankings."
This isn't true. If it was you could sabotage your competitors.