How To Build .Edu and .Gov Backlinks - Link Building Guide

Hello Guys, today I am going to let you know something very helpful about the backlinks. We all know that back links are everything when it comes to blogging / online business. Quality back-links are capable of taking your blog or website to the next high level of business. A blogger could attain .com, .org, .info, .net back links easily, but it’s really tough to attain .edu and .gov back-links.

Today I will give you some valuable tips on “How To build / attain .edu and .gov backlinks”. .Edu and .Gov backlinks are some of the most valuable backlinks in market. These are the links from some educational institutions and governmental organization such as schools, colleges, universities and governmental institutions. These educational and governmental entities are equipped with high authority sites. High authority means they are the most trusted websites in the eyes of Search Engines.

These sites may also have higher page rank (above 5) and almost all pages are indexed by Search Engines, since they have been online for 10-15 years. So getting a back-link from any of these sites are like finding a treasure on a deserted island.

These links helps you with your off-page SEO strategy in a big way. There are different types of backlinks you can get from .edu and .gov sites. Some of them are listed below:

Different Ways To Acquire .Edu And .Gov Backlinks:

Acquiring .edu and .gov backlinks are quite difficult. I would help you to acquire .edu and .gov backlinks easily, the only thing you needed to do is just read and apply these tips correctly.

Step 1 – Blog Commenting

This is the simplest and one of the safest method of getting backlinks.I think almost 90%  of .edu and .gov blogs have their commenting system moderated.Getting an approved comment on an .edu blog is a herculean task.Since no one waste their time for moderating comments on an .edu blog.Don’t worry at the end of this article i will give the list of auto approving of .edu and .gov blogs for commenting.

Step 2 – Guest Blogging

Guest blogging had become the doable way of building quality links.According to my knowledge only 1% of government sites provide guest blogging.Guest blogging will be permitted on some blogs like your college’s blog and some local government bodies.While writing an article for a .edu blog never try to stuff keywords.If you are stuffing keywords then chances of getting penalized by google are very high.

Step 3 – Forums

Many educational institutions will have forums, by forums i mean (.edu forums).Create a profile on .edu and .gov forums and on signature column put your blog’s link as signature.Edu forums are concentrated on a particular topic or field of study.You can create a profile on these forums and inorder to get backlinks you should be active and contribute to forum discussions.

How To Find .Edu and .Gov Blogs For Building Back links:

Step 1 - Use Of Operators

You could use certain operators in Google search box for finding .edu and .gov blogs for commenting. Some of the commonly used operators (along with their use ) are given below.

> To find .edu and .gov blogs to comment on!  Use the following operators to find appropriate sources for your blog / website:

To find .edu and .gov blogs for creating back-links:

·         Site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment”

·         Site:.gov inurl:blog “post a comment”

To find .edu and .gov forums for creating signature links:

·         Inurl:forum.gov      Inurl:forum.edu 

Step 2 - Finding .edu and .gov backlinks from other people’s website

·         Check other people’s backlinks by using Alexa or SEOMoz. While checking if you found any .edu or .gov links make a note of it and try commenting on that .edu or .gov links so that there will be a good chance for you to get a backlink from that .edu site.

·         Another way to find .edu backlinks of a website is using  a operator. Try using the following operator on google search box.For eg if you want to find the .edu or .gov backlinks of a blog.Let the blog’s url be xyz.com

Use the following operator for finding it:

·         Linkdomain.xyz.com site:.edu

1.    After entering the operator on Google search box press enter this will list all the .edu backlinks of that website.

2.    Use the same step for finding .gov backlinks. Only change you needed to do is “change .edu to .gov in the above operator”

Conclusion:

.Edu and .Gov blogs are of higher authority in the eyes of Google so getting backlinks from those sites is an asset to your blog. First of all read the above steps carefully and then apply it during your free time. I guarantee that there will sudden hikes in blog traffic after getting some high authority back-links. Hope you guys enjoyed my post. Share the post and support the blog!