How to get back link from .edu and .gov site

Hi, friends, there is a easy task to get back link from related website. But i have no idea about get valuable link though education and government sites. it to be important or not?

You’re going about it all wrong… no edu/gov site is going to link to so you can have a stronger backlink instead you need to figure out what value your site can provide to an edu/gov organization that would make them want to list you as a resource.

Once you know what you can offer, it becomes a matter of finding the right organizations, the right parts of their site and building a relationship just like you would with any other pitch. You’re [generally] talking about sites that try to be resources so stay away from the seo and marketing talk and instead focus on the value… if you don’t have clear value to offer to their users, get working on that first.

Remember, the goal of a link is to drive traffic by providing value to humans. Do that and you’ll be just fine with search engines plus you may just discover, not all traffic comes from search results :smiley:

A site is not automatically considered as ‘better’ just because it’s on a .edu or .gov domain – the reason that sites with those TLDs tend to perform better in search engines is because they are, well, better. They have lots of content that’s easy to access with no arty-farty splash screens or fancy animations getting in the way, and lots of inbound links because they are authoritative. And, as Ted says, they are not going to be giving away links to any old Joe left, right and centre.

To get a link on any valuable page on any valuable site, you need to have a good reason why the site’s owners and visitors will benefit from that link.

Yes,if you want to get link back from .edu or .gov blog then you will have to contribute with useful content on that website.I would like to tell you this is really very tough task if you are going there to get backlink purpose.You should focus only on sharing some quality content otherwise it will totally a time waste.
Thanks

Search for your category related .edu forms & be a part of it. You can use following terms for searching the forums:
site:edu “powered by vbulletin”
keyword forum site:.edu
keyword forum site:.gov

Well, every backlink carry equal weight (It does not matter what domain extension a link is coming from… And, Google has confirmed this)

All what matters is, the quality of webpage from which link is coming to your website. Sometimes, backlink from a .com domain is much valuable that a .edu link.

Well said Stevie, I was going to say something along the same lines, but you did it better!

It seems there is some old wives tale going around that .edu and .gov links are the holy grail and people seem to be getting hell-bent trying to get backlinks from them, whereas a quality link is just a quality link…

You’ve contradicted yourself there.

Backlinks do not all carry equal weight. Some are extremely valuable and some are as useful as dirt on your shoe.

What you may have meant is that there is nothing intrinsic in the domain/TLD that determines how valuable a link is. That’s true. It’s the quality of the site that determines that, not whether it is on a .edu domain or a .org or anything else.

The thing is, do you really think google are going to tell you what they do and don’t do and how they rate things. I can understand you point on the TLD subject but who really knows anything these days

Some edu sites allow you to link if you can offer a service or valuable info.

I don’t think so it is necessary to have links on .edu and .gov websites. Apart from this, there are several other factors you should pay attention. You website ranking depends upon several factors like how it works in search engines, if your website has something for the end-user, etc. Better try to get links from related/niche websites rather than to .edu and .gov websites. Indeed, .Edu or .Gov creates authenticity, genuineness and faithfulness of your website. You can achieve all these potential factors from social websites like facebook and Twitter.

Well, the point is there is a difference between a backlink coming from some top university (with .edu domain) and backlink coming from some ordinary educational website.

Obviously Google doesn’t tell this to webmasters but its algo knows. And, Google use this info for adjudjing credibility of backlinks to your website.

Hi ,

Its hardly to get link back from .edu and .gov websites… As per my knowledge, there are some educational and government blogs are allow you to comment… Just be sure you “DO NOT SPAM YOUR COMMENTS” . Post relevant comments and get link back to your site.

That sounds useful, could you specify please which firefox addon does that?

I think Blog commenting on .edu and .gov is the best way to get .edu and .gov links. The following technique helps you to find blogs that is related to .gov and .edu sites:

keyword site:.gov -”comments are closed” “add a comment”

keyword site:.edu -”comments are closed” “add a comment”

If I’m going to say something, I’d just repeat what Ted said. There’s a way to do that, by the way. They’ll list you as a resource if you inform them that you used some data from them to complete a research that you’ve done. Credits to Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz for this tactic. Another way would be looking for blogs under those edu and gov sites and leaving comments there.

The search suggestions given in earlier posts for forums and blogs are well meant but it still comes down to whether you and your site can make a relevant contribution to the forum or blog. If you can’t, then you aren’t going to get a link.