How Do You Get "Authoritative" Domains to Link To You

How do you get links on EDU, GOV and ORG websites? There is the most obvious way, find a target page and request the link. I am curious as to the other methods DP'ers are getting links on these domain extensions.

 

Those are extremely difficult to get links from...The only way you can get links from EDU is by knowing someone who will link to you that is in that organizaton. I used to have a friend who did web design work for his university and they allowed him to link to his web design website after working with them for a month. GOV links ...I have no idea how you could pull that off, do those websites even link to websites that are considered "normal or everyday websites"?

 

My ebook which teaches you how to get a student id and then a student blog at a PR8 University .....but sometimes you can get lucky and find something like this: http://stemmed.sagrado.edu/wp-signup.php

Hope that helps.

 

I have a website that offers stock market tools. I usually just send them an email and ask. I sent to a lot of blog owners, a small percentage would link to my site or talk about it in their blog if they found my tool interesting.

 

Is it like getting a student id and a blog without being a student? Doesn't sound ethical to me. Correct me if I am wrong.

 

I don't think there is anything unethical about it. The university allows anyone to register....even you ameerulislam1
All you need is a valid email address.

Once you register you will have access to a university blog. What you do from that point is where intelligence, more than ethics come into play.

 

im not sure how u get that valid email address. they dont seem to accept hotmail or others.

 

Most universities require that you have a valid university email address before they provide you with a blog for example.
However the university in my ebook does not, as long as you have a valid email address that you can receive emails....you could use hotmail, gmail, yahoo, aol even those old mindspring.com email address. Additionally the only email you receive from the university is your university id number, which is all you need to open a blog.

 

see you can try any network which built for link exchange and link selling. If you are lucky enough you will get that kind of links.or create highly technical content which you can distribute to universities and if they like they can put your link as a reference,,,,

 

without trying any sneaky tricks, I say that the easiest way is through article marketing.... please hear me out on this.

-find an angle to write something that is going to be very helpful to people and has some demand
-do very in depth research on the topic
-write a very well thought out and very informative, authority article, case study, or short report on the subject
-submit to the top article directories and wait

in some cases this will be enough. If your article is good enough, there is a decent chance that your work will be picked up and republished on authority sites. However, it does not have to stop there

-you can submit the article to high-end article distribution services like thephantomwriters.com . if you are not familiar with this type of article marketing, i suggest you download the free report (no opt-in required) here : http://thephantomwriters.com/ebooks/advanced-article-marketing.html

-you barter with websites for content in exchange for a link. This will be harder to do with .gov and difficult for .edu, but still worth trying. Plus there are pleanty of .com and .net and .org authority sites out there as well. but the point is that you find a section of their site (that is not a competitor) and you get in contact with the webmaster and tell them that you have a kick-a$$ piece of content that you would like to give them for FREE that they can use on their site. Let them know how it would really benefit their readers and all you want in exchange is a link. It will not always work, but it will sometimes and when it does you can get some links that would be impossible to obtain otherwise. Not to mention you can traffic for years to come.

one note on this method is that it is way more effective if you have not published the article yet. So if are you going to try this, try it before submitting the article anywhere else.


These methods are not sure-fire winners every time. It may take you 10 articles to get 1 bite, or you could hit 3 home runs in a row. The point is that if you can consistently produce high quality articles and keep at it, it will work and can bring awesome results.

IMO this is the easiest way to get impossible authority backlinks

 

smartalex4,

Nice advert for your ebook - but it is in the wrong category, should be in "for sale" category. I have tried to register just for a username and it rejects my email address at my domain, gmail and hotmail.

This is an obvious punt for your ebook.

 

Some aged, deleted domains have backlinks from edu. and gov. sites. Extremly difficult to find them but may payoff a hard work.

 

Inkanet: that is a really good strategy that I have seen work before, but the upkeep for those domains can get overwhelming if you get too many. My advice here would be to try and find the strongest one(s). 301 redirect them and try to contact the EDU and GOV websites to get the link replaced, as long as your content is the same.

If your content is not the same use the 'internet archives' to see what sort of content was being provided by that website and set up something similar so that the link will stay up. I have noticed EDU's seem to update link pages about once a year, typically around the start of the Fall semester or slightly before. So if you find a dropped domain you should make sure you have done something with it by July/August of that year.

 

There are a lot of students that sell links on their .edu blogs, so it is really easy to get links. Most students need money anyway.

 

Geester,
In regards to the edu link I posted above, it looks like Sagrado recently updated their verification system....up until recently you were able to sign up for a edu blog on their server with any old email address (hotmail,gmail, etc.) as I have several blogs on their servers. Here are some of the blogs that others were able to capitalize on before they closed the window:

http://mortgagecalculator.stemmed.sagrado.edu/
http://downloadmovies.stemmed.sagrado.edu/
http://attractionsthailand.stemmed.sagrado.edu/
http://freemoney.stemmed.sagrado.edu/

In regards to my ebook....I was answering the questions I was asked, and the sales thread is in my signature.

 

I think a good article works sometimes.. If you offer a service you can offer the university staff and or studenst a discount on your service. Many times they will list service providers such as this on the universities site with a link?????

Oops did I just let out a trade secret?

 

another good one. the trick is here that it has to be something students/faculty could actually use. so a discount on some services/products won't get their attention. for example an attorney, a payday loan company, etc..

 

Oh plenty of services and products could get there attention. Expecially if your site serves the local community then your golden.

 

Plus if you own a shopping website for example selling books, you could give students and staff 10% off on all orders.. That would work...

 

first of all, a domain does not have to be edu, gov or org to be authoratative. ignore everything you hear about domains carrying more authority than others, .com can be equally as authoratative as .edu. secondly, authority is built up over time by sites that are well maintained and produce genuine content, not just crap put up for SEO reasons.

you get links from these sites by being like them, that is putting love into your site, not just hoping it makes you a fast buck