Most experts will agree that Google, Yahoo and other Search Engines give a higher value to .edu and .gov backlinks. Let me show you the easy way to gather some of these links in White Hat style (White Hat=Legitimate, Grey Hat=Questionable and Black Hat=Does your mother know you are doing this?) Today we will be getting white hat .edu and .gov backlinks.

If you are wanting to increase your search engine love which in turn will increase your organic traffic it is a great idea to collect some .edu and .gov backlinks. One method is to use this text in a search to find blog with .edu or .gov extensions.

site:.edu inurl:blog “keyword”

The issue with this search is that it will return all the .edu blogs with your chosen keyword, but, it will include ones where the comments are closed or where you must be logged in order to post a comment.

Let’s tweak the search a little using some Google operators so we can exclude those types of blogs from our results. This will make your search results actually useful.

“Inurl:blog” tells the engine that we are looking for a place that allows comments, and our best chance at that will be of course a blog. Again this alone is not enough so lets keep narrowing it down.

We want to be able to post a comment so lets add this to our search string we are building and see what shows up. Simply add “comment” to the string and viola we are getting closer to the holy grail. You may notice if your actively surfing between these that some blogs are not updated very regularly or have had their comments closed.

This is nothing to fret about so lets subtract these from our results simply by adding -”comment closed” we accomplish this. While we are at it some blogs may allow comments but require you to log in, so let’s kill those links as well so -”you must be logged in”

site:.edu inurl:blog “comment” -”you must be logged in” -”posting closed” -”comment closed” “keyword”

Please do not abuse this discovery. This can only be white hat methodology if you actually read the posts and place meaningful comments on their site. Always add value and contribute to the conversation at hand. The blogosphere is already full enough of Black Hat tricks and spammers.

Now go get some link love!

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