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Finding Student Blogs For Easy EDU Backlinks
Most people believe that Google places extra weight on backlinks from the .edu and .gov TLDs. Just search webmaster forums and you’ll find tons of threads like “WTB: .edu backlinks” along with plenty of people selling them.
I don’t know that anyone has proof of .edu backlinks being any more useful than a .com backlink, but if you want some easy .edu links, all you have to do is use Google…
Put this in Google:
site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment” -”you must be logged in” -”comment posting closed” -”comment closed” “keyword”
or
site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment” -”you must be logged in” -”comment posting closed” -”comment closed” “internet marketing”
You can just copy and paste that into Google, making sure to change “keyword” to whatever your preferred topic is.
Then you’ll get a list of crappy blogs that have been spammed by tons of webmasters already. But if that doesn’t turn you off, go ahead and make a comment with your link in it!
You could probably do the same thing to look for forums, guestbooks, and other sites where you can leave links. Just switch the “inurl:blog” to “inurl:forum” or “inurl:forums” or other synonyms. Or switch the .edu to .gov, whatever you want.
If you change the search terms enough, maybe you’ll find a good site that hasn’t been spammed way too much already! (But I doubt it.)
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Usually links within comment get a rel=”nofollow” automatically that makes the link worthless.
Usually, yes, but not always.
And people can still click on a link even if it’s nofollow, so I wouldn’t go as far as saying they’re “worthless”
Can i get high pagerank using SEO software ?
Thanks for your answer
Wistuo
Tell you what ive found hard, blogs are difficult to find but other sites that give good quality non forum based information for students is harder. Im a student myself and ive got so annoyed i made my own site (www.studentstyle.net) using my friends, teachers and experiances but find another one like to link to? not happening.
thanks for the advice
Although links in the comments section are “nofollow” by default, if their blog has the top commenters plugin installed, then if you post a handful of times, you can make it onto the top commenters list.
I seem to recall that the top commenters plugin defaults to dofollow. And that can mean a front page link from your target edu/gov/high pagerank site.
I’ve seen people make it to the top commenters on highly ranked websites with only 3-4 comments.
Food for thought.