EDU backlinks

Profile links do take time to get indexed, even when RSS'd or Pinged. You should see some of them index with a few weeks typically. Try to link busy pages to them or tweet about them if you can do it without being 'spammy'.

Also try other forms of EDU links, type a Google search string as below:

inurl:.edu

Mixing with your keyword and "post a comment". Or something similar.

This works extremely well for me, a lot of people don't have much success with blog comments though so do your own testing on this.

You can ping them to more quickly index them. However, they will all be spidered and indexed in time as forums have decent SE friendly structure and your profile is linked to in a number of places.

I personally just keep making more and they are eventually indexed instead of spending time with pinging or social bookmarking to get them indexed. If you need to speed it up though that is an option.

.edu links are what they used to be especially from .edu profiles. You can ping them all you want but Google isn't going to waste the time to spider a site who's content really would benefit their search results and you need to know that.

It's just best to move on to another backlink strategy one that utilizes what Google wants, good, fresh, quality content...

Look, your backlinks do not have to get indexed for them to give you a boost in your rankings. The question you should be asking yourself is: "did my rankings change?", rather then "did my backlinks get indexed?"

Every situation is different of course but you should be looking at the end result, really.

Thanks for all the great commentary that is why I love this place. I'll wait longer and see if they get picked up. I would rather not have to post on the pages. (Some of them are on topics I have no clue on!) If anyone else has suggestions please don't hesitate to post I appreciate the feedback.

Thanks,
NW

First, Google has been spidering forum posting for a long time, and forum/blog posting from .edu used to be very effective but, as with anything, adjustments are made.

Most good .edu blogs don't allow for links and what .edu have forums anymore, the students use Facebook or internal forums that aren't public.

Second, it's like I posted above, what info are being posted on .edu sites? Is it worth for Google to spider and index these sites everyday, throughout the day? In most cases no.

I can go to a high PR authority blog (one that I like to visit anyways so might as well get a backlink from it), identify a certain type of post, leave a thoughtful comment on that post where I get a backlink (without having to leave an actual link in the comment, if you know what you are doing) and within a few hours the comment will be indexed and you'll see a backlink to your site.

Plus the fact that by leaving good comments, I get visitors back to my site as well (which I can see from my analytics). So why waste your time building backlinks that might do something, when I can build backlinks that are indexed, are being reported and beneficial to my site's ranking and actually getting traffic from...

Try to ping them. But .edu links usually takes to be indexed by Big G since .edu sites have a strong impanct on the SERPs and can highly alter the positions of sites.

woow , thanks for information

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