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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