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

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.

Hi Steve

Was your question for me or smartalex4?

Keith

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.

Thanks Guys.. more great tips for you there

Keith

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

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.

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

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

Nice Technique definitely it will help me to get the backlinks