Where to find .edu link backs

We all know a link back from a .edu domain is worth it's weight in gold as far as google is concerned. But dose anyone know where to find them?

 

The value of gov and edu links has been widely debated.

If you have a high quality site with unique content, and no-very little advertising. You can try searching in google site:.edu "keyword", for relevant sites that would like to link to your high quality site.

If you do not have a high quality qite, with unique content, ask yourself why would a government site or education institution want to link to your website? If it is too commercial or if it was nothing to offer their guests the answer is they won't.

Then you the only option of searching for job boards, forums or blogs on relevant sites.

 

*Self promotional.. i know *
I have a .edu blog, pm me if you want to buy a link

As for your BROAD question... try google with 'inurl' 'allinurl' etc.

 

you would think this would be easy in certain niches....with many college age kids having access to webspace on .edu domains (and profs and prof asst's), there are many blogs on .edu domains on many subjects, related to education subjects, classes, study material, unix, computers, technology, linux, and just plain old personal blogs. do that inurl search to see if you can find .edu pages related to your keywords...

 

I've said this before on another thread, that one of the best things about .edu sites is that they are normally huge, sprawling, and sometimes even chaotic websites that offer quite a number of opportunities for getting links. Spend a bit of time digging around on those sites and you often come up with a few pages that could be potential linkers. It's also worth bearing in mind that the perceived 'value' of your site will differ depending on who you approach. For example, a professor is likely to have much higher standards on who he links to as opposed to, say, an office assistant who is responsible for the maintenance of a handful of pages on the site.

As others have mentioned, finding them is as simple as appending 'site:.edu' on to the end of your search query, but don't forget the world of education is not limited to just '.edu's'. In the UK they're called 'ac.uk', in Australia it's '.edu.au', NZ it's 'ac.nz' and so on.

Good luck,

Phlegm...

 

i dont believe that edu links has a special importance . there are so many viagra spammers on edu blogs.

if you want to find edu link, you can search forums and blogs with edu extensions

 

tld's have no importance on a sites rankings.

To get .edu backlinks, open google and search "your topic forum site:.edu"

 

Does the page rank of the edu site matter to Google in terms of the value of the link? Or, just the overall fact that this is an edu site or gov site automatically give the link more weight?

 

The fact it is a .edu or .gov doesn't matter

Just the PageRank of it, the same as any other site (or relevancy, quality etc. depending upon what you want the link for)

 

theres too much spam going onto those .edu's

 

Yahoo cares about .edu links but for google there is no difference cause google has its own measurement of importance (pagerank)

 

Well yes, I do agree EDUs are spammed, but they are much less spammed because it's more difficult to find a edu to spam than a com or net, and EDUs are not sold to anyone. We all know this. And Google does.
...there might be a slight Google trust to EDUs...
Just a thought.

 

You can find them in here http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:edu+forum&hl=en&safe=off&start=20&sa=N

 

Nope no difference in weights given to extensions.

Lots of students are given their own page on .edu sites etc.

meThis is why they are weighted the same

 

Some reasons:
A student or a professor won't put there 100000's of doorways about drugs.
I've never seen this.
But I'm seeing it all the time with other distinguished TLDs.
The difference is that the student and the professor has some responsibility for their site. They can't just drop it and start a new EDU. You can do it with other TLDs. Besides I very rarely come across a commercial site on EDU TLD.
They even are not being SEOed properly(in majority).
All the spam we see on EDUs com from other people(blog submitters, etc), while their owners do not experiment spamming. They have no point for that, they do not earn a living from the websites.

These are some statements everybody(including Google) knows. I think this is enough to give some extra value to EDUs and GOVs.
As to the Matt Cutts' comment on that - I think they had to do it to protect EDUs from a spamstorm. Imagive him say: "well, we do give EDUs and GOVs just a bit more trust than the other, but you shoudn't worry, it is a very-very slight boost.." What we'll have here? I guess you know