How to Get Great .GOV and .EDU Links Yourself

Getting .GOV and .EDU links is a great way to diversify your current backlink building strategy and also give your site a solid boost in search engine rankings as these are very powerful and high authority backlinks. I thought I’d just give a brief guide on how to find these rare and powerful links.

The first thing to do is to load up Google; we’re going to use certain parameters to sort for the sites we want.

The first thing you want to do is to use the site: parameter. This allows us to sort for domain names that are either .Gov or .Edu.

What you would type straight into your Google search query will  look like:

site:.edu or site:.gov

Now we have to take this a little further because this is going to list every .Gov or .Edu site indexed depending on what query you used. So now I’m going to use certain footprints that I found for finding sites on .Gov and .Edu domains that you can actually place links on. Some examples are:

inurl:forums – Forums to create profiles or drop links on.

inurl:wiki – Wikipedia style sites, many where you can create or edit pages.

inurl:discussion – Usually will be a forum where you can post to

Then to take this further I will also use footprints on the sites themselves. Some of these include:

vbulletin

powered by fireboard

phpbb

invision power board

Now we’ll combine these. Some of your final search queries will look something like:

vbulletin site:.gov

or

site:.edu inurl:forums

Really the key here is to think of the types of platforms that you can post on normally and then add the site:.edu or site:.gov parameter to this search query. The more you can think of the more sites you’ll find.

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March 9, 2010 • Tags: , , , , , • Posted in: SEO, White Hat

11 Responses to “How to Get Great .GOV and .EDU Links Yourself”

  1. r4 sdhc - March 11, 2010

    You have described very well about getting .GOV and .EDU links..There are also good examples about it..Its easy to understand from this post..

  2. Elizabeth Cooper - March 19, 2010

    I got really amazing strings from here.I also have some easy strings to find .edu, .gov, .mil & .ac.uk links particular for blog commenting but any body can apply for forum also.

    {KEYWORD} comments +blog site:.gov
    {KEYWORD} comments +blog site:.edu
    {KEYWORD} comments +blog site:.ac.uk
    {KEYWORD} comments +blog site:.mil

  3. maid of honor speeches - March 19, 2010

    Wow, I never knew about this. I am definitely going to be adding this technique to my backlinking campaign. I wouldn’t even worry about relevancy. Just get the link.

  4. How To Sing Blog - April 13, 2010

    Thanks man you lists and articles about these auto approved shit are really nice. Please keep them coming :-) .

  5. Offshore ruby on rails developer - May 4, 2010

    thanks for the information yeah you are right .edu links plays a vital role in the ranking if a site and if someone able to get that link than he will get a lot of benefits.

  6. Ricky - May 10, 2010

    Very nice…will be using these to get those .edu links. Thanks!

  7. Buy YouTube Views - May 13, 2010

    Nice post, just found your blog from bhw. So far i like it :) Going to join your mailing list!

  8. Edu Blog Finder - May 20, 2010

    Yes, keep spreading the good word my man! Awesome technique

  9. guitar lesson online - May 29, 2010

    This site is great I use to look for .gov and .edu links but I don’t know the techniques thanks for the very great post..

  10. elaiyaraja - June 12, 2010

    this is very useful for great GOV EDU links.I have more idea from this site and give more benefit for make money.this backlink compain is good.

  11. Mike - June 16, 2010

    Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I was looking for a edu and gov links. I saw your name in MMD so I thought I check you out. ;)

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