"Dropping" a Backlink on a .EDU Site?

KenTheriot · 07-23-2011, 01:34 PM

Can I get a clarification on something? I've read in multiple guides now that I should "drop a link" from a certain site, like a .edu site, for example. What is meant by that? How do you just "drop" a link on a site?

I'm assuming this means to either add a comment on a blog post or set up a trackback by mentioning/linking to that blog post on my own site. Is there more to it than that?

Thanks.

Ken

Victoria Gates · 07-23-2011, 01:49 PM

I believe Blog commenting is what they mean by that.

alphadesign · 07-23-2011, 01:52 PM

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KenTheriot · 07-23-2011, 01:53 PM

Thanks Victoria. They always make it sound so easy but most of these sites have commenting turned off or otherwise unavailable. Kinda frustrating.

Ken

NateSimms · 07-23-2011, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by KenTheriot

Thanks Victoria. They always make it sound so easy but most of these sites have commenting turned off or otherwise unavailable. Kinda frustrating.

Ken

Ken,

I have literally thousands of .EDU blogs at my disposal.

Most of them are virtually UNTOUCHED when it comes to comments.

For example:

A .EDU blog from the University's 'Study Abroad' program.

As you can see, I'm literally the ONLY person commenting on these .EDU blogs -- (I'm a partner in the 'Slash Your Spending' ClickBank product.)

And, if you notice, you can navigate to literally hundreds of other posts within separate blog categories on that one page. You can seriously boost your SERPs like crazy with just one well-found .EDU blog like this one.

... and I've been able to come across hundreds and hundreds of them.

Just gotta look. ;-)

BTW: feel free to have fun with that example I gave you. I'm currently working on another .EDU blog I've found and gift you this one.

fluffythewondercat · 07-23-2011, 02:03 PM

Any .edu blog you could leave a comment on would be thoroughly trashed by spammers anyway. Why bother?

Recently i had an article written and published on a PR5 blog. When I checked the blog's backlinks, I found it had only five in all. But three were from Carnegie Mellon, of which this blogger was an alumnus. Nice links if you can get them -- but most people can't, of course.

fLufF
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KenTheriot · 07-23-2011, 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NateSimms

And, if you notice, you can navigate to literally hundreds of other posts within separate blog categories on that one page. You can seriously boost your SERPs like crazy with just one well-found .EDU blog like this one.

Thanks Nate - I'll put a comment in there and see how that works out. The sites I was mentioning were ones like these two:

Web Development Blog: Marketing and Communications: Case Western Reserve University
Cross-Cultural Blog: The future of music production: Home studio recording

Neither have comment windows. Would I be correct in assuming there is no fast way to get a backlink from these two sites?

Thanks again!

Ken

Alexa Smith · 07-23-2011, 02:43 PM

Hi Ken,

Don't imagine, just because a page is on a .edu domain, that that in itself makes a backlink there potentially worth more than any other. This is very widely misunderstood, but there's a fairly full explanation here, if it helps.

I apologise for having owed you a p.m. for so long; please excuse me.

NateSimms · 07-23-2011, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KenTheriot

Thanks Nate - I'll put a comment in there and see how that works out. The sites I was mentioning were ones like these two:

Web Development Blog: Marketing and Communications: Case Western Reserve University
Cross-Cultural Blog: The future of music production: Home studio recording

Neither have comment windows. Would I be correct in assuming there is no fast way to get a backlink from these two sites?

Thanks again!

Ken

The second? No. They seem to have shut off commenting.

The Case Western blog does, indeed, give you the capability to post a comment. I was able to click on a specific blog post under the 'Recent Entries' on the left sidebar. Scroll to the bottom of the post and people have "dropped" some links on there already.

KenTheriot · 07-23-2011, 03:10 PM

@Alexa - Thanks! And np at all

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