A FREE way to get .edu backlinks... FROM GOOGLE

This is a huge work finding the good site, creating an account, searching where to put a comment... but I've done it for once !

Thanks for the idea.

 

Thanks for the info.
I am a great fan of .edu links and always build as many as I can. This is a great way to find highly targeted, relevent backlinks.
This also works well on Yahoo.

 

Thanks for the info, will try to get my first .edu link ever

 

you can apply the same tactic for .gov sites. it would be site:.gov inurl:blog "operator(s)"

edu+gov = 2x authority website links

 

Nice information

 

I forgot about this thread. I hope those ideas still work.

 

If we see anything, its that 'nofollows' are not worthless. Google is smart enough to know word relationships in the content, across domains, and domains in neighborhoods. It can understand temporal data on nofollows and know if its an authority website and a site has many nofollows, then it is still an authority on a subject to serve up in the SERP.

 

well according to me.. no follow attribute matters a lot while link building.
its used, so that the crawler ignores it. But still I'm confused with the results. because if you post comments on high page rank blogs (having no follow att) still you get a better result.
So there's lot more to research on it. But i think its still important to build links on these high PR's, as its valuable.
and thanks for that search syntax !!

 

If you think about the meaning of the expression "no follow", it *should* mean that the robot does not add the link to the list of links it needs to grab.

That says nothing about whether google *should* count the link or not when determining PR and SERP. Provided you have at least one normal link (without rel=nofollow) then googlebot will already have the page on it's list tot grab and index .

Surely there is a very easy experiment to answer this never ending discussion definitively. Create a page with an easy-peasy long tail keyword as title, H1. Then link it once only with the same anchor text and rel=nofollow from a page that googlebot visits. Now check whether
a. google does not list the page at all (==> it obeyed the nofollow and we haven't learnt anything about whether the link is counted)
b. it gets any position in the SERP
c. it gets a PR

In theory result should be a. therefore no SERP and no PR.

So a more complex test is needed - can be constructed by getting two pages indexed and to #1 on a 2 similar long tail keywords with a single link.
Then remove the single link but give each of the pages a new link. One rel=nofollow, the other a normal link. Now compare results.

Has no-one ever done this?

OK enough of that. These forums can be very distracting once I start thinking about something. Counts as my water cooler break I guess ....

 

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