How To Get .gov and .edu Backlinks

PageRank is the word of the day, and I want to show you guys a good way to increase it. Before I begin let me tell you a little bit about PageRank, what it is, and why you want yours to increase.
PageRank is Google’s stamp of importance which every site receives. PageRank is measured from numbers 1-10: 10 being the most important, and 1 being the least important. What you’re trying to aim for is a decent PageRank for your blog; the higher your PageRank, the more you benefit from it.

What increases my PageRank?

What increases PageRank is the sites that are linking to you; the higher their PageRank is the more weight they will pass on to your links. In this case, weight can stand for level of importance. The more links that point to your site, the higher your rank will go up. If the sites that are linking to your site have high ranks, then it will be even easier to get a high rank yourself.

e.g. 10 PR6 sites linking to you are worth way more then 500 PR1 sites linking to you.

What’s the .gov and .edu thing all about?

This brings me back to the weight thing. The same way they’re sites that end with “.com” or “.org”, they’re sites that end with “.gov”, and “.edu”. These “.gov” sites are related to the government, and the “.edu” sites are related to education; Google considers these sites to be of high importance, which is why they give off so much weight and have extremely high PageRank.

In a nutshell, getting several “.gov” and “.edu” backlinks will contribute to your PageRank tremendously, more then just a regular link, or PR6 link for that matter.

OK, OK, I get it. How can I get my hands on some?

The first thing you want to do is find these sites that end in “.gov”, and “.edu”.

The way you do this is by going to Google and typing in any of the following into the search box: inurl:.gov+inurl:blog, inurl:.gov+inurl:blog, inurl:.edu+inurl:forum, and inurl:.edu+inurl:forum.

When you type any of these into the search box in Google, the results will yield a lot of .gov and .edu sites (depending which code you typed in). Notice the codes are looking for blogs and forums that end with .gov and .edu; the reason for this is because you can comment, and place links on forums and blogs–allowing you to link back to your site.

What if they don’t follow?

Well that’s OK. For those who don’t know, follow, in this case means allow links to be indexed by search engine spiders. If a site doesn’t follow then there is pretty much nothing you can do about it. But there is a solution to all of this, and it’s called: Search Status

What’s that?

It’s a FireFox add-on that includes a feature which you can opt to see no-follow links highlighted. This way when you go to a site, you’ll immediately know if they follow, or don’t follow. Click on the link above to download it.

This should help you avoid commenting on sites that will give back no SEO juice. Saving you a lot of time. Seriously, you should definitely take the time out to search for these sites, and leave comments linking back to your site; it will improve your PageRank in due time, and can make your site more valuable if you plan on selling it one day.

If you want to learn more about PageRank and ways on how to increase it, you might want to check out these posts: Importance of backlinks and How to get a PR6 backlink

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