.edu/.giv blog commenting question

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Is it worth blog commenting on 2 different postings within the same .edu/.gov blog to obtain a backlink? Say for instance you comment on both a "food preparation article" and "food safety article" on the same .edu blog, will you be doing redundant work or will you in theory get 2 backlinks?
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  • Profile picture of the author redstanford
    any thoughts?
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  • Profile picture of the author Re-cycle
    you should go for it as long as it is a "do follow" link.

    Some websites have the same link in all pages of the site (ie, the footer), which means the number of links will be the same as the number of pages.

    If its a dofollow, do it, why not.
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    • Profile picture of the author redstanford
      Originally Posted by Re-cycle View Post

      you should go for it as long as it is a "do follow" link.

      Some websites have the same link in all pages of the site (ie, the footer), which means the number of links will be the same as the number of pages.

      If its a dofollow, do it, why not.

      o good point. how can you tell if it's do follow or not?
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      • Profile picture of the author BloggingPro
        Originally Posted by redstanford View Post

        o good point. how can you tell if it's do follow or not?
        If you are rocking Firefox there is a NoFollow plugin you can install and when you turn it on all the DoFollow links will show up as Blue and the NoFollow links will show up as Red.
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  • Profile picture of the author Re-cycle
    best way to find out is to vie the "source" code of the website.
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    • Profile picture of the author BudgetSEO
      Originally Posted by saibee View Post

      Yes my friend...going for it can be bright idea if its a dofollow link that the blogs are offering...
      Absolutely wrong, because 100's and 1000's of people have or possibly will comment on the same blogpost with an intention to get a backlink. Can you imagine your parenting site getting a link from a page which gives a link to an adult site?
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  • Profile picture of the author ann1986
    even if your links from a gov-edu sites does not have your keyword as anchor text it still gets good link juice as long as its from edu-gov
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    • Profile picture of the author foxlobo123
      how do you get .edu backlinks?
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        ".edu" backlinks actually work rather differently from how many people imagine they work.

        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.
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  • Profile picture of the author trytolearnmore
    Look, i've been hearing about the "dofollow" and "nofollow" stuff for a while now. Maybe it's just me, but i think link building isn't that trivial. It's not just about building as many dofollow links. I believe Google isn't that stupid.

    Somewhere in the WSO section is a product called "Edu annihilation" and i asked the author whether nofollow edu/gov blogs bring some value.

    He answered "Yes, i had websites high ranked by "nofollow" links only". Then I asked a Warrior Forum member (who owns a SEO company) the same question and he confirmed that "nofollow" edu/gov links are valuable. So i would recommend you don't believe anything a warrior says unless:

    1) His opinion is based on facts or some research
    2) He is a trustworthy expert
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew Barton
    In general, if you have a quality website that you can leave comments on, I try to leave a few comments on different posts. There are a few reasons for this.

    First, it improves your odds that at least one of your comments will be approved (although you should leave good comments in the first place so this shouldn't be an issue)

    Second, it improves the odds that at least one of them will get indexed.

    Third, if you want, you use some of the comments for internal linking purposes.
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