How to Get Great .GOV and .EDU Links Yourself

wowhaxor — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:26:56 +0000

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

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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