Tips on how to get links from .edu & .gov sites.
Generally Every SEO is trying hard for getting listing of their websites in the major search engines. As a SEO you all knows that Google giving more weight to that link which comes from the .edu and .gov. domain.
Now here I want to share some tips on how to get links from .edu and .gov domain.
First Method :
You should to do web design or web development for educational institution, college or school and also for the government. After creation of website you can place your website link at the footer of the website under the tag “Website Design By : XYS” or “Website Developed By : ABC” whatever.
But I think this method becomes very costly for us for getting only one link from the site of .edu or .gov domain.
Second Method :
This method is useful for finding you the directories and ADD URL option in .edu and .gov sites. If you want to search those site which has a facility of add URL, then you should to use this search operator in Google.
site:.edu “Add URL”
site:.edu “Submit URL”
site:.gov “Add URL”
site:.gov “Submit URL”
Through this command you can find the list of those .edu or .gove sites which are providing the service of URL submission.
Third Method :
In this method you can get the link from the blog of educational and government site. But in this method be careful you should to give genuine comment related to blog. You can search educational blog or government blog through this command.
site:.edu “blog”
Generally you should to give the comment on your business service related blog. E.g. if you have the website related to “Health” then you should to search health relate educational blog through this command.
site:.edu “blog” “health”
Fourth Method :
In this method can get links through Forums. You should to participate in the educational forum (business related educational). You should to make discussion in the forum and place your signature in the footer of your post you can get the benefit of .edu links or .gov links.
You can find the educational or government forums through this command.
site:.edu “forum”
and if you want to find forum of particular category then you should to use this command.
site:.edu “forum” “health”
Hope this information is useful for getting backlinks from .edu and .gov sites.











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Interesting posting. Living in south Africa, we don’t have .edu or .gov, but we’ve got .ac.za
Now the question is if google (and other ssearch engines) will allocate more weight ot .ac.za links, and how do I find out if they do?
Great Info! I am so glad I came across this site.
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