Since undiggnified.com is no longer being updated (if anyone is interested in taking it over, let me know) I figure I should probably take some of the better posts from there and move them over to here!
And so, here is a post from Unidggnified.com on gathering EDU backlinks:
So everyone who knows about SEO also knows that google and the other big search engines love .edu backlinks.
Unfortunately, .edu backlinks can be a bitch to find and keep if you aren’t the blackhat type to spam blogs and forums with millions of links.
Well, you’re in luck! I have a solution!
Try doing a simple google search like this:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aedu+OR+site%3Agov+%22Discussion+Forum%22
This looks for .edu or .gov domains that have the terms “Discussion Forum” in their content.
I often modify this search term with a keyword relating to the site Im trying to get links for.
Let’s say it was a site about art, then I would modify the search to say “Art Discussion Forum”.
You get the idea.
What this does is spit out a list of potential places for you to place links back to your site! Now you could just spam the hell out of every page returned by this search, but your links are more likely to last longer if you pick your sites carefully and only make posts that have relevance to the site you are linking back to. That said, I ain’t gonna tell you to not spam…I’m not that kinda guy. Do whatever the hell you feel like.
I had a look and I see a lot of people signing up and a backlink in their profile. Does that do any good for a white hat website? I sort of feel a bit anxious to add a link on any of those websites?….