Acquiring .Gov and .Edu Backlinks

Saturday, September 19, 2009 15:35

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Since the last few updates by Google, it has been observed and surely quite evident that dofollow(non-nofollow) backlinks from .gov and .edu sites hold quite a priority. Amongst the 200+ factors that Google considers while placing you in the SERPs for a particular keyword, backlinks from websites having quality domain extensions are among the many important factors. As it moves from the free domains like co.cc having the least priority to authoritative domains like .gov and .edu having the highest, while the other ones like .org, .net, .com rank in between these.

Its no secret by now that these domain extensions provide good link juice, though many many people are totally unaware about it. Many know its benefits but have absolutely no idea as to how they can find ways to place their links there. But there’s a way to search for such sites using Google itself. This particular method is not at all well known or common and hence just a bunch of SEO experts and webmasters make use of it.

So how would you get such sites with ease? Here’s how :

1) Open up Google, preferrably ‘Google.com’ and do a search fro the following parameters :

site:.edu inurl:blog ‘your keyword’

site:.gov inurl:blog ‘your keyword’

Replace ‘your Keyword’ with your own keyword like ’seo articles’, ’seo tips’ or whatever it may be.

Breaking it down for the .gov(2nd line), here’s the explanation :
a) site:.gov <—- Searches for websites with the .gov extension
b) inurl: blog ‘your keyword’ <—- Searches for the term ‘blog’ in the URL as you can comment on blogs only and not on the particular website. ‘your keyword’ when replaced with your own keyword, like say ’seo articles’, searches for these keywords within the content/body-text of that particular page so as to make your link more relevant when placed.

gov-edu-relevant-backlinks

2) Once you have the list of many many such sites, its time to filter filter and filter. What i mean here is, considering the introduction of the nofollow attribute, you may find it difficult to get a blog where your link placed in the comment will be dofollowed. So, if you are on Firefox, make use of a plugin like SearchStatus. I’ve been using this addon for quite a while to distinguish between nofollow and dofollow links.
Getting back to topic, get the list of all such blogs where the comments are dofollow and start commenting or find some alternate ways to place your links(no spam).
Maintain your reputation on these sites as you will be able to use them on a long term basis.

Be consistent, 100 links in one day and no links for the next few weeks will make things look fishy from the Search Engine point of view and most importantly, be original. Take your time, comment wisely and DO NOT SPAM.

Another statement, even .mil links(military) have an equally good authoritative level but getting yourself on such websites is a herculean task for sure. For all those who still don’t know .edu stands for educational while .gov stands for government.

34 Responses to “Acquiring .Gov and .Edu Backlinks”

Dr. Mike Wendell says:

September 19th, 2009 at 9:44 PM

If you’re looking for WordPress Multiuser installs on *.edu sites, you can replace inurl:blog with inurl:wp-signup.php to find these. May even be able to obtain your own site as some colleges and universities allow open installs as some schools don’t restrict their professors and staff to use inhouse email solutions.
Techfrog says:

September 20th, 2009 at 12:40 PM

Thanks for the Tip Dr. Mike. Surely a good and less known one.
Get Edu Backlinks says:

October 7th, 2009 at 12:19 PM

This is a great article to clearly explain how you can acquire these valuable .edu’s and .gov’s, and why you need to get gov and edu backlinks for your website in order to compete in the SERP’s. My hat’s off..
Tushar says:

October 12th, 2009 at 10:00 AM

That was really nice analysis.

Thanks!
Juegos says:

October 16th, 2009 at 3:39 PM

I like your article and i’m glad i found your blog. Thanks especially for the trick with the parameters. Wish you all the best.
Putra Eka says:

January 29th, 2010 at 5:51 PM

Getting backlink for .edu and .gov is very important to improve serp and pagerank. But I think we need to post comment with something relevant and valuable to the .edu or .gov sites, it keep our links still there or will be approved from admin although spam the sites with full of nasty url.
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Sydney Bookkeeper Accountant says:

March 19th, 2010 at 4:40 PM

This is such a great article. I have been struggling for months to find away to get .edu or .gov backlinks. This answers the question perfectly. Thank you for the practical advice (often a scarce commodity on the internet).
Rocky says:

April 18th, 2010 at 6:49 PM

There is really useful information for me. Search command is fantastic. Thanks
Seo freelancer says:

April 23rd, 2010 at 1:18 AM

Thanks a lot for this searching tip. Admittedly these .gov .edu backlinks are very hard to locate. While you can find them thru searching but then acquiring links from them is another challenge. But with this technique, I won’t bother searching dozens of them and at least getting a few successes will be great.
John Cornor J says:

April 26th, 2010 at 10:36 PM

Nice tips for your posting, thank you
Rocky says:

May 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 AM

This is very good information for getting backlinks. I am regular reader of this site and I always like to share good information. Thanks
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May 9th, 2010 at 7:39 PM

Thanks for this, it’s something I hadn’t thought of and will certainly take a look at.
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May 14th, 2010 at 5:59 AM

This is such a great article. I have been struggling for months to find away to get .edu or .gov backlinks. This answers the question perfectly. Thank you for the practical advice (often a scarce commodity on the internet)
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June 9th, 2010 at 4:45 PM

thanks for the Tip Dr. Mike. Surely a good and less known one
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June 16th, 2010 at 7:41 PM

Hi…
Getting backlink for .edu and .gov is very important to improve serp and pagerank .There is really useful information for me.
Thanks…..
Webdevelopment says:

June 21st, 2010 at 12:36 AM

Those are great tips, thank you! I’ve never been able to get .gov and .edu backlinks so far, but this seems like a pretty foolproof solution. I’ll be sure to give it a try. Has the author of this blog got any luck with acquiring an .edu backlink? Just wondering.
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June 21st, 2010 at 8:26 AM

Even low PR can serve you the big G maybe suspecting as BH if all our links came from high PR sites. Just a thought
vendre maison says:

June 23rd, 2010 at 4:53 PM

Thanks , very good! best regards
Engineer Trainer says:

July 8th, 2010 at 12:34 PM

I can confirm that acquiring .edu links helps with traffic and rankings. Two week’s work has seen my daily traffic climb to 100 page views a day from about half that, and I am getting closer to the front page for a very difficult and important keyword. However, .edu is another matter – hard to find and place!
Trina Colon @ homes foreclosed las vegas says:

July 13th, 2010 at 12:33 PM

I haven’t really got the idea that .edu and .gov blogs differ from .com .net or so websites. I’m really thankful that I have read this blog this would really help in building backlinks to some blogs.
ghdpick says:

July 19th, 2010 at 4:22 PM

great.
ED Hardy says:

July 20th, 2010 at 2:26 PM

haven’t really got the idea that .edu and .gov blogs differ from .com .net or so websites. I’m really thankful that I have read this blog this would really help in building backlinks to some blogs.
black country says:

July 25th, 2010 at 4:58 PM

I have tried these methods and they really do work. It is a great help to new web admins so thanks for the info.
agence web says:

July 27th, 2010 at 11:52 AM

Hi, its good and found informative.. I am also using the tool searchstatus.. but when i put active “highlight the nofollow” , i m seeing the comments highlighted here..that means the comments are nofollow ?.. how could i differentiate with this tool? can u help me?
Junior says:

July 29th, 2010 at 10:38 PM

Very interesting article and technique, i will now give that a try.
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August 28th, 2010 at 7:38 PM

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Hiphopbeats says:

September 20th, 2010 at 11:40 PM

Good resource… I’m searching for Edu auto do follow links as I’m following a pattern of some guru who states that 50 edu links will boost your serp rankings better than pretty much anything. At the moment I’ve collected about 8,000 edu links, but most now (Sept2010) are either moderated or have an excellent anti-spam feature. I can get past most spam features, but it just takes too much time … so I move on. Hope fully the DoFollow link I’ll get from this site will help
vincent says:

January 17th, 2011 at 7:27 AM

Very resourceful article. Great tips. Thans!
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RIMASA - Hornos Industriales says:

September 8th, 2011 at 8:51 PM

This is good information, they said. Government and education. These were sites that focus, but I’ve been thinking about it because everyone is always saying that it is Google Page Rank is more important. I is definitely going to stop focusing on. Edu y. Gov links. so thank you so much
John says:

September 12th, 2011 at 1:52 AM

You need to be persistent and keep posting.
will says:

April 25th, 2012 at 1:19 PM

I’m new to getting links and seo but this is great advice.

Loads for me to learn but quality info like this is cool.

Back to work for me

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