Thanks for the appreciative comments. I just found a pr5 dofollow blog , I thought I'd share it with you'll. Just look for pages with pr in this blog and post your comment. Don't spam please. http://id.ome.ksu.edu/blog/ For some more tips on finding dofollow relevant blogs, check this thread on dp. These two guides can be combined to look for relevant dofollow high pr .edu blogs.
Your welcome. Ya, I like to build a couple of good nofollow links to. Some search engines do count them a bit, and a link from a authority site never hurts now does it.
Stop trying to promote your services in my thread. Unless you werent promoting your link building service and wanted to share something. If you want to, just post it, dont as people to Pm you.
I add point 5 to the guide. - Ping the site. They are mostly buried and google may take ages to find em. Anyways, good one!
There are several flaws in this approach: 1) .edu and .gov links are treated no differently than .com links when it comes to passing page rank. Matt Cutts and John Mu and other Googlers have confirmed this on several occasions. 2) As others have stated almost ALL blogs now days are NOFOLLOW so not only do they not pass you page rank... you will get no credit for the inbound link and it's associated link text. Google doesn't even include the link in their link graph. 3) Student blogs on a university site will likely NOT have any (or VERY few) inbound links so they won't have any page rank to speak of anyway... So even if you DO manage to find one that is FOLLOW and passes PR, it's going to pass you next to nothing in the way of PR. 4) Those student blogs are likely to not have many, if any, pages indexed. If the pages where you're links are located are not indexed, the links are not counted as backlinks. 5) The 'lives' of those student blogs are generally short-lived. Universities frequently wipe all data associated with student accounts at the end of each semester... Then you have all the normal issues associated with getting backlinks from blogs in general... the fact that even when the blog stays live, do FOLLOW links from posts and do FOLLOW links from comments typically only give a small boost when the post is located on the home page of the blog. When it moves off the home page and into the archives the amount of juice passed (if any) is greately reduced. Frequently, the posts end up being dropped from the index shortly after it rolls off the home page and into the archives at which point you will not get credit for the links on that post. If you can't get a legitimate link from the university portion of the site or a professor or employee's portion of the site where it's likely to be around for years to come, I wouldn't waste my time on tracking down some student blog to comment on. In the time you spend finding a couple do FOLLOW student .edu blogs that you can post a daily comment on, I can get a link from a 'real' web site that is going to be more relevant, pass me far more link juice/page rank, allow me to pick specify where on the site the link should be and what link text should be used, and even better... it will be there for years to come. Your blog comments on those .edu student blogs (if you can find do FOLLOW blogs to comment on) are going to pass a short-live boost to rankings, small amounts of PR, likely not be relevant to your topic, and will require you to constantly be commenting just to maintain your rankings. I just think your time could be better spent trying to get a few 'good' legitimate natural links on 'real' web sites to build a strong backlink profile instead of trying to chase do FOLLOW .edu student blog links or using some other unnatural spam-techinque-de-jour to build a weak, volitile backlink profile.
That is logical thinking, commenting on .edu sites to get back links? If everybody starts doing it to get the backlinks then thats not an indication of search result relevance, again a flawed Google algorithm that seems to rank your site based on number of backlinks, or number of other sites that point back at your site. The flaws are a) you can buy links from others, b) you can setup different hosts in different IPs and link to your sites yourself etc. Google's indexing algorithm is unable to determine the real worth of the content for what it is, as it stands. Again it is not really indexing Mp3 sounds, or even flash files. Lets say you would like to search for a speech code that pronounced a word in some archive somewhere, in a video or audio file, by inputting it in voice code, and it returns the closest match that was recorded at a previous date, so it can be checked out and refined as it seeks fit.
Ya, google's search operators are awesome. You just need to be creative, and you can come up with your own method of using the power of google, to find the links you want.