A Simply Way to Find Edu Sites In Your Niche to Create Quality Backlinks

[Keith Everett]

Hi Guys

I think we pretty much know by now the VALUE of creating Backlinks with Educational sites. By leaving quality comments to posts on these sites we can

a) Create value to the site we are posting the comment

b) Create a quality Backlink to our site to help increase OUR ranking on Google

c) Build a relationship with the Blog owner for the future - for reciprocal comments on our own Blog, plus possible future guest blogging relationships.

But how can we find these EDU blogs, especially ones in our NICHE?

Easy...

Where you normally type in the URL, type in:

site:.edu inurl:blog +”post a comment” -”comments are closed” -”comments off” +”YOUR KEYWORDS HERE”

Where it says "YOUR KEYWORDS HERE", replace this with the actual keywords that best represent your niche, i.e Internet Marketing, etc

This will bring you up a stream of EDU blogs in your niche for you to create lots of quality backlinks...

Have a great Sunday...

Keith

[smartalex4]

Those are all good tips, however I would like to add that you can combine them with a free edu blog that you can pick up here - Eastern University | College of Graduate and Professional Studies - Community Menu (its the free one that I offer on my sales thread)

You will have an easier time getting others to link back to your edu blog than your money site, so get links to your edu blog and then link to your money site.

I've done this multiple times...and have had success EVERY-TIME.

Good luck everyone!

[Steve Wise]

How does that work exactly?

[echaz]

great info kweb!

I'd like to add for those people who use scrapebox. It's extremely easy to find .edu blogs using the right footprints! Just google "Scrapebox footprints" and you'll find thousands of useful footprints!

[smartalex4]

Originally Posted by Steve Wise

How does that work exactly?

If this question is directed at me....I would say do everything Keith states in the original thread-however use it combined with your own edu blog.

1.Create your edu blog (at the link I mentioned abobve)
2.Add some decent content about your niche
3. Do what Keith mentioned and get links to the EDU blog
4. Create in niche links back to your money site from your EDU blog.

The reason I do this is because it is exponentially easier to get backlinks to an edu blog (with decent content) than it is to a money site.

Eastern University (the place where you can get the free EDU blog) isn't the greatest, but as a webmaster, which would you rather link too.... something like eastern.edu/blog/helpful-legal-advice or lawyerworld.com.

I think most would say the Edu blog.

[Keith Everett]

Hi Steve

Was your question for me or smartalex4?

Keith

[Keith Everett]

Originally Posted by smartalex4

Those are all good tips, however I would like to add that you can combine them with a free edu blog that you can pick up here - Eastern University | College of Graduate and Professional Studies - Community Menu (its the free one that I offer on my sales thread)

You will have an easier time getting others to link back to your edu blog than your money site, so get links to your edu blog and then link to your money site.

I've done this multiple times...and have had success EVERY-TIME.

Good luck everyone!

Originally Posted by echaz

great info kweb!

I'd like to add for those people who use scrapebox. It's extremely easy to find .edu blogs using the right footprints! Just google "Scrapebox footprints" and you'll find thousands of useful footprints!

Thanks Guys.. more great tips for you there

Keith

[Lsindo]

Thanks a lot for the tip. I spend lot of time finding edu sites. Hope this tip will work for me.

[MarkAnderson]

Beware, I saw some crappy program create fake (.edu) sites and cheat your money.

[Barry Unruh]

Originally Posted by kweb777

how can we find these EDU blogs, especially ones in our NICHE?

Easy...

Very nice tip, Keith.

For anyone with Market Samurai, don't forget your Promotion module which lets you search for EDU blogs and forums. Don't only look at the option to comment but also the pingback settings.

Barry

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by Steve Wise

How does that work exactly?

Actually it works rather differently from how many people imagine it works.

Domain-extensions have no bearing, in themselves, either on SEO or the value of backlinks. It's perfectly true, of course, that many .edu backlinks are very good backlinks to get, but correlation isn't causation, and it's not the fact that they're on .edu pages that, in itself, confers any "extra benefit" at all.

The point here is simply that many (by no means all!) .edu sites are also, at least to some extent, authority sites, and that's what makes their backlinks valuable ones.

Other .edu pages aren't "authority sites" at all.

I have a couple of .edu blogs, myself, but sadly their backlinks are worth no more than a backlink from any of my .com, .info or any other sites, and in fact usually worth quite a bit less, because some of my main .info/.com sites are now building up quite a bit of "authority" and some of their pages are building up some higher PR's, too.

The analogy that always springs to mind, in this context, is the belief that having a "blog" rather than a "non-blog website" is going to confer extra SEO/backlink benefit "because Google loves blogs". Again, the logic here is pretty mistaken, and in the same way: it's the attribution of causation that's at fault. The reality, in this case, is simply that "Google loves regularly updated websites", and a lot of blogs do happen to be regularly updated websites. Again, correlation is not causation.

If you have a niche site about arthritis remedies, for example, a .edu backlink from a university's/med-school's rheumatology site is going to be potential gold-dust, while a student forum or blog which - like so many - is non-context-relevant and PR-0 will actually be no better at all than any other random non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlink such as an article directory.

Contrary to popular belief, it isn't the "being on a .edu site" aspect of it that gives any advantage.

[orbis]

Thank You I"ll try this as I am new and trying to make my first website I'll come back and let You know did it help actually

[Rukshan]

.edu backlinks are the best among all backlinks. But we need to post comments where you see less OBL on the page. Because all are trying to put comments. When I found a page, I check OBL by using a firefox plugin. If it's more than 100, I choose another indexed page on same blog.
My advice is "Don't put a comment when you found a page by these queries. Just do a research on the same blog where you can put comment"
It only needs few more minutes

[orbis]

Guy I am new and I'm trying to make my first site thanks for the tip I'll come back and let You know did it help

[eapen john]

Useful info, thanks. But I have tried to get back links from .edu and .org sites using this technique long ago, but sadly they were not approved.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by blog8491

.edu backlinks are the best among all backlinks.

With apologies, for the reasons explained in post #11 above, this widely believed urban myth of internet marketing simply isn't necessarily so.

[Barry Unruh]

Originally Posted by blog8491

.edu backlinks are the best among all backlinks

hmmm, A .edu link or a link from the Wall Street Journal .com website for my "business website". Which one do I want?

Now, if you said a link from a Harvard Business School .edu site, or one of their top professors blogs, compared to the Wall Street Journal, I'd have to really stop and do some serious evaluation of the situation.

[uProSoft]

This is an awesome thread. In addition i would like to add these strings.
- “keyword phrase”+inurl:blog site:.edu
- site:.edu inurl:blog “keyword” “comment”

[kooldesigning]

Great thread! Can you say if these .edu blogs are dofollow or nofollow

[Giani]

Replace "edu" with "gov" to find .gov links

[smartalex4]

Originally Posted by kooldesigning

Great thread! Can you say if these .edu blogs are dofollow or nofollow

If you create the free edu blog at at Eastern University, the links will be dofollow

[Pentimento]

Here is some more string
Hope it will be usefull

site:.edu "forums register"
site:.edu "register iam over 13 years of age forum"
site:.edu "discussion board register"
site:.edu "bulletin board register"
site:.edu "message board register"
site:.edu "phpbb register forum"
site:.edu "punbb register forum"
site:.edu "forum signup"
site:.edu "vbulletin forum signup"
site:.edu "SMF register forum"
site:.edu "register forum Please Enter Your Date of Birth"

* “keyword phrase”+inurl:blog site:.edu
* “keyword phrase”+inurl:blog site:.gov
* site:.edu inurl:blog “keyword phrase”
* site:.gov+wp-admin
* site:.gov+blog
* site:.gov+comment.php
* site:.gov+”submit site”
* site:.gov+”submit your site”
* site:.gov+”add url”
* site:.edu inurl:blog “keyword” “comment”
* site:gov – ”you must be logged in” -”comment closed”
* site:edu – ”you must be logged in” -”comment closed”

sometimes search in google-image

i tired find edu blog but nothing so far

Originally Posted by echaz

great info kweb!

I'd like to add for those people who use scrapebox. It's extremely easy to find .edu blogs using the right footprints! Just google "Scrapebox footprints" and you'll find thousands of useful footprints!

May u share right footprints for edu blog ?

[Donna Hamer]

Excellent tip Keith - I will give it a try.

Thanks also to Pentimento for sharing more ideas.

I will be posting all night now !!

Cheers Donna

[samuel.johnson]

Thanks kweb77.I had founded some great links.

[iwp999]

Nice Technique definitely it will help me to get the backlinks

[nathanielf]

If you find a useful blog to comment on, you can also "reverse engineer" other comments on it if you think they are automated. Copy a small part of the other comment, paste it between quotes in Google and there's a chance you'll find other blogs where that person/bot commented.

I don't know how automated and random some of those bots, or whatever programs some people use, are but it works from time to time .

Sorry if this was posted already.