wowhaxor
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With our .EDU bots I've been getting questions of how we always find a ton of sites to post links, and more specifically articles, to. Obviously I'm not going to hand you our link lists or they get hit hard but teach a man to fish and all of that (find your own links with this method). The most popular platform for easily finding places where you can create an account and post an article with contextual backlinks on a fresh page is MediaWiki. I created a quick video outlining how to do the posting process for best success (not pissing off admins, getting your article to stick and doing it quickly).
If you want to follow along with the video the site used in the example (live and accepting articles for ya) is:
Watch the video:
[video=youtube_share;NA_8KihvU50]http://youtu.be/NA_8KihvU50[/video]
To find more of these sites then you're going to want to use advanced Google search strings.
To locate MediaWiki sites my favorite search string is (remember this is for Google Search):
powered by mediawiki inurl:index.php?
Now, this will yield hundreds of thousands of sites running the MediaWiki platform and although you can find .EDUs in there it is best to narrow it down to just .EDU sites by adding the appropriate variable to your search query:
powered by mediawiki inurl:index.php? site:.edu
Copy and paste that into your Google search box and you will get a ton of .EDU MediaWiki sites. However, you?ll notice that probably about 85% of these don?t accept public registration to stop you from posting your promotional articles. To speed up the process and avoid having to view all of these we will now go ahead and search for articles that were obviously put up by someone else doing some SEO work. To do this we?ll add a term that we know to be maybe spam or a very popular keyword/key phrase; some examples include buy generic viagra or perhaps payday loan; play with different ones to find different articles and thus more .EDU sites which are running the MediaWiki platform. Here is what a final search term that will yield you sites ready to go may look like:
powered by mediawiki ?payday loan? inurl:index.php? site:.edu
Note that MediaWikis use something called wiki markup for formatting, not HTML, you can read about all the formatting codes here. The most important is the URL format which is: [http://www.site.com anchor text] or, as an example [http://imservicesolutions.com IM Services] would have an output like this:
IM Services
On your medaiwki article.
Hopefully that's all you need, did this kinda quickly from the writeup on my blog post its a little more in depth.[/I]
If you want to follow along with the video the site used in the example (live and accepting articles for ya) is:
Code:
http://wiki.scu.edu/live/wiki71/index.php?Watch the video:
[video=youtube_share;NA_8KihvU50]http://youtu.be/NA_8KihvU50[/video]
To find more of these sites then you're going to want to use advanced Google search strings.
To locate MediaWiki sites my favorite search string is (remember this is for Google Search):
powered by mediawiki inurl:index.php?
Now, this will yield hundreds of thousands of sites running the MediaWiki platform and although you can find .EDUs in there it is best to narrow it down to just .EDU sites by adding the appropriate variable to your search query:
powered by mediawiki inurl:index.php? site:.edu
Copy and paste that into your Google search box and you will get a ton of .EDU MediaWiki sites. However, you?ll notice that probably about 85% of these don?t accept public registration to stop you from posting your promotional articles. To speed up the process and avoid having to view all of these we will now go ahead and search for articles that were obviously put up by someone else doing some SEO work. To do this we?ll add a term that we know to be maybe spam or a very popular keyword/key phrase; some examples include buy generic viagra or perhaps payday loan; play with different ones to find different articles and thus more .EDU sites which are running the MediaWiki platform. Here is what a final search term that will yield you sites ready to go may look like:
powered by mediawiki ?payday loan? inurl:index.php? site:.edu
Note that MediaWikis use something called wiki markup for formatting, not HTML, you can read about all the formatting codes here. The most important is the URL format which is: [http://www.site.com anchor text] or, as an example [http://imservicesolutions.com IM Services] would have an output like this:
IM Services
On your medaiwki article.
Hopefully that's all you need, did this kinda quickly from the writeup on my blog post its a little more in depth.[/I]
