Source of .edu and .gov backlink

TausifAlHossain · Dec 23, 2015

Please let me know the source of .edu and .gov backlinks. I really need those. Any suggestion guys?

Hawker · Dec 23, 2015

What makes you say you really need them? How can you know that if you've never had them before?

They can be good for SEO though.

For finding them you can use some dorks or "footprints" as the kids like to call em.

Find edu forums sites, gov forums sites

site:edu inurl:login (Create an account)
site:edu (powered by vbulletin)
inurl:.edu/phpbb2
inurl:.edu/ (Powered by Invision Power Board)
site:edu (powered by SMF)
site:edu "powered by SMF"
inurl:.gov +inurl:forum + inurl:register
inurl:.gov +inurl:forum
inurl:.edu/phpbb inurl:register
inurl:edu forum
inurl:gov forum
inurl:.edu+inurl:forum

You can search manually or use ScrapeBox.

Manual searches with manual placement usually works best for your money site.

ScrapeBox for your tier3's etc

SEOPub · Dec 24, 2015

There is nothing special about them. It is just a big myth that continues to be dragged on by crappy link sellers who are just looking to scam people. If you see anyone selling .edu (or .gov) links they are either clueless or deliberately trying to rip people off.

SEOPub · Dec 24, 2015

Look there is nothing special about a link just because it is on a .edu or .gov site. All things being equal, a link from a .com, .net, .org, or .xyz site would be just as valuable. Google does not put any added emphasis on links because they come from a .edu site. Anyone can get links from .edu sites. They are sold all over the place and all they consist of is crappy profile or blog links.

Now if you got the homepage of harvard.edu to link to you, sure that would be immensely valuable, but not because it is a .edu site. It would be valuable because it is a high authority webpage.

And this is what gets people in trouble...

For years anecdotal evidence has suggested that Google loves government and education sites. They offer valuable, high-quality content, are highly ranked in search results and often have very high PR/DA/PA stats and provided its not a nofollow link can provide lots of PR. Although PR has now been disabled other link juice/spiders can still flow through them which increases the rank/indexing of your site.

Many educational and government sites are high quality authoritative sites. So yes, a link from a RELEVANT quality page on one of them is great. (I'm not talking about profile links or crappy blog links.) These are the kind of links you have to literally ask for from someone at the institution itself.

People saw how a lot of the sites that were being linked to from .gov and .edu sites were ranking well. Then they drew the completely wrong conclusion. Instead of looking at the fact that it was a link from a high authority, relevant webpage, they decided that Google must love all edu and .gov links.

That is how this stupid myth was born.

On a side note, DA and PA do not matter.

Source of .edu and .gov backlink

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