Getting .edu and .gov blog backlinks

This is my first post so I thought I'd post something
useful. This is mainly for new people, but perhaps a
refresher for the experts out there.

How to Find Valuable .EDU and .GOV Blogs for High Value Backlinks:

Step 1) Open Google.com
Step 2) For .edu blogs search
Step 3) Copy/Paste the following EXCEPT really put your niche keyword(s) where it says "Your Niche Keywords"

site:.edu inurl:blog ?post a comment? -?comments closed? -?you must be logged in? ?Your Niche Keywords?

Step 4) For .gov search you can do same thing



site:.gov inurl:blog ?post a comment? -?comments closed? -?you must be logged in? ?Your Niche Keywords?

Then, visit each blog in the listing, leave a genuine comment, and then Bookmark it under an EASY TO FIND label such as ".edu highprblogs" or ".gov highprblogs" so you can revisit them. These won't be as much for clickthrough traffic as for SE Ranking.

great post

btw to maximize the effect of this, download SEO plugin for Firefox and it will show you the page's PR

These won't be as much for clickthrough traffic as for SE Ranking.

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How do you know they will even help for ranking?

.edu and .gov links are said to carry more weight than other links but there is some debate on whether this is the case or not. Google claims not but who knows? Anyway, a link is a link, right?

zx_81 said:

.edu and .gov links are said to carry more weight than other links but there is some debate on whether this is the case or not. Google claims not but who knows? Anyway, a link is a link, right?

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Yeah. Probably would be better off looking for any and all blogs and posting your backlinks. (As opposed to just EDU/GOV.) You'll find MANY more--10 backlinks to .com/.net/.org/etc. sites > .edu or .gov., even IF they were weighted heavily.

Won't they only have SEO value (aka "link juice") if the links have "rel=********" in them? I'm not stating this as a fact, I'm asking the question.

dirtyc said:

Won't they only have SEO value (aka "link juice") if the links have "rel=********" in them? I'm not stating this as a fact, I'm asking the question.

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Only wont go if they don't have don't follow, lol. (Or spiders.txt configuration stating not to.) Spiders default to following unless told otherwise--they don't have to be explicitly told to. (Or if they have some other good reason not to, of course, like a blacklisted domain.)

drkenneth said:

Only wont go if they don't have don't follow, lol.

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True, but don't most blog software packages come "out of the box" with nofollow by default? I would think that they would (I'm not sure). I do know that if they aren't, they should be, because that would be best for the general public who installs blogs (in order to prevent providing an incentive to comment spam to people like us

still a good post most people wouldn't know how or bother to learn how to use google like this to their advantage even when their "business" is seo

thanks for the great tip, I've actually found a few blogs where I was able to *ahem* place my links successfully.

Thanks for this. I just tried it and I was able to submit some links. Now, only time will tell how much Google likes them.

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telus said:

These won't be as much for clickthrough traffic as for SE Ranking.

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I'll propose the question again and hope someones actually interested this time:

Won't this, in fact, do nothing for our SE ranking unless the blog is NOT configured as 'rel=nofollow'? I understand the previous poster's point that the default is for search engines to follow links unless explicitly told not to. However, my counter point was that aren't most blog installation setup by default to explicitly tell the spiders NOT to follow (i.e. 'rel=nofollow').

Trust me, I hope I'm wrong about this, but I highly doubt it. I'm not calling the threat starter's tip useless, I just want to make sure that we don't miss the point here. Unless those links get followed then they will do nothing for SE rankings.

I've seen a major increase in rankings for having links from Blog Comments. Doesn't matter if it's .edu, .gov, or .com. A "Do Follow" link will be credited to your Site ... BUT you still want to make sure that the Blog is relevant to what you're linking to.

Don't link your "make money" blog to a .edu blog that has to do with "quantum physics", because that will just make you look stupid to the Search Engines.

Good Luck`

OK so is there a way to modify above search to exclude blogs with 'rel=nofollow' tag ?