How to get .GOV and .EDU backlinks for your site

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

or

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.

 

Be aware that .gov and .edu aren't better links simply because of their TLD. All other things being equal a PR5 .gov will pass the same PR & 'reputation' as a PR5 .com as a PR5 .xxx

 

why does everyone keep copying and pasting Articles from Ezine on here for ?

here is the original blog post.

http://www.pinoyideas.com/web-ideas/seo/link-building-lesson-search-for-edu-and-gov-sites

 

Well that is not the original. The original is from my blog some months ago, that must be scraped/copied.

 

cool, it will be great to use with scrapebox

 

I'm really tired of ppl not writing original content.

 

Wow, that's totally written by me I just thought I'd share it here.

PS that pinoyideas site clearly just scrapes other sites, like MY blog!

 

I'm going to have to disagree with you, .gov/.edu aren't a normal TLD, they have a much higher authority, then TLDs such as .com, that anyone can register.

 

but org and edu..all not easy to post links or something

 

there probably all nofollow tho and moderated fiercely

 

Edu. domains and .gov are guarded by ubber zealous moderators. But thank you for trying to help!

 

Men thanks for this info .

 

The very reason why the majority of .edu and .gov is because they are mostly protected from spammers.

 

I am complete agree with you about posted statement. In order to find .gov and .edu back links, search query must be in proper format.

 

Great technique, thanks for the tips.

 

Thanks, I learned something new

 

Thank you,

I agree as well.

 

.edu and .gov are not normal TLDs we can register .com domain easily but we cant register .edu and .gov domains..

 

This is what I was trying to say. If you don't believe it though then don't do it, leave the powerful links to us

 

yes they are protected by spammers, but if you have interesting site at edu, gov forums in sig, admins allow that. If you are selling mobile phones, why not to create blog with reviews or some tips for phones/smartphones with software reviews and then get good links to it. Some time will pass and you'll be able to use this blog for link building.