Finding good quality backlinks is difficult in this day and age.
It may be tempting just to load up a cheap backlinking tool and let it plug away at linkbuilding, but any link that is easy to get probably isn’t worth its weight in salt.
Similarly, if there was an algorithm update, chances are high that you may be affected from it negatively.
Here are a few methods to finding the kind of backlinks you need. The first few are aimed at finding high quality .edu comments and the rest are a few less common tips to getting onto high quality sites!
1. Find Open Comments
This method is a bit more common than the other ones we are going to dive into, and for that reason may not always deliver the top quality links (although they will still be better than most non-edu links), and the advantage of this method is you can nearly always find something to suit your need with no cost involved too you.
For this method you are going to use the Google search engine to search for blogs, and forums hosted on .gov/.edu domains that are open for registration or allow comments. Here are the search strings you need to use to find these lists:
Blogs:
- site:.gov “add comment” OR “post comment” “ADD YOUR KEYWORD”
- site:.edu “add comment” OR “post comment” “ADD YOUR KEYWORD”
Forums:
- site:.gov “powered by vbulletin” OR “powered by Phpbb”
- site:.edu “powered by vbulletin” OR “Powered by phpbb”
It’s also important to note that the bulk of the sites you find will be moderated comments, take a second to glance over the article and try and make your comment somewhat related to the topic to drastically increase the chance of your link getting approved. The last thing you want to do is spend your time building links that never appear!
2 (i) Student Blogs: Hire a Student
This one falls into a bit of a grey area when it comes to internet marketing, it is against the rules to buy links for your website, however it is not against Google’s terms of service to hire someone who has the ability to create a .edu blog for you.
Most students in the US have access to student pages, student classifieds, student blogs/forums where for a few dollars worth of beer money they’d be more than happy to post your link and even write some content around it.
Perhaps your thinking “Hey I don’t know any college students”, but I doubt you need to look much further than places like Reddit or Craiglist and be willing to drop a couple of dollars to find a student who would be happy to champion your cause.
2 (ii) Student Classifieds
In this case you are not actually looking to hire a student, but many college campuses across the US have Help Wanted classified sections on their website.
Unlike the student blogs these are not open access, and are likely on the main domain (not a sub-domain) meaning that have even more value. If you have a project you wish to out source, or a job posting to fill spend a few dollars posting it on a campus website.
Not only might you find the right candidate but you will get a powerful backlink at the same time!
3. Article Directories
Perhaps the strongest method to building out this particular type of backlink is various content directories (HubPages, Squidoo, RedGage, Suite101, etc).
Due to the size and well established authority of these sites you can expect a great deal of extra value being passed through to your website, also unlike web 2.0 properties content directories allow you control over the various data aspects that are required to make your backlink really pack a punch (i.e. control over file name and outgoing link destination). Other websites simply fail to give you the same in-depth control potential for your link.
Of course the other crucial impact of an article directory is the traffic. Article directories are already flooded with real visitors, real engaged users each day who are actively seeking for your content. Nowhere else will you get such targeted readership while simply backlink building.
4. Postjoint
Another great way to get white-hat links is to guest post on Postjoint.com by writing your articles and posting them for submission various bloggers and webmasters can post them to their site, and you are allowed up to two backlinks per article.
Some of the bloggers do request a small fee for the blog posting but more often that not you’ll find it worth it, especially since you can sort bloggers by PR, Alexa ranking and Klout!
5. Contests
Last but not least a great way to get authoritative backlinks is to hold unique local contests.
Perhaps you’re a company that specializes in video production, why not host a contest that challenges young entrepreneurs in the region to make the worst possible commercial and the winner gets some of your services free.
Not only is it a great chance to promote your business but the story will be picked up by local news outlets as well as niche related blogs getting you authoritative backlinks from a diversity of local niche sites.
Conclusion:
2013 and SEO has become more tough, and the only way to rank well in Google is to find the best sources of links.
Getting high quality, manual links are the best way in order to achieve the positive rankings you desire, in search engines, like Google.
If you have already started by building poor links, you can check out the disavow tool and make a wise decision. I know several people who used this tool to remove away their bad links and their rankings had slowly climbed back up to its starting position.
About Leith
My name is Nandita B, and I’m a SEO practitioner and part-time blogger. My sheer passion for sharing knowledge a webmaster needs drove me to create “A Webmaster’s Magazine” called SEOHour.com
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Nandita,, i have a question… how much .edu and .gov links are strong? and why? and secondly if my blog is a technology blog then .edu and .gov links are not my niche, is it good to get backlinks from edu/gov sites, which is totally different from my niche?
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Hi Leith
Hiring Students and creating .edu is really a nice and innovative idea
loved it cheers
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@techmell: This is not about niche. This about back links. And surely Google ranks you good if you get back links from .gov and .edu sites.
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I’m not asking about backlinks dude.. my question is Why .edu and .gov backlinks are good as compare to other websites? and for your kind info,, it’s really about niche.. if you don’t know about importance of relevant backlinks then you don’t have enough knowledge to answer my question.. have fun
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Thanks Nandita. Found lot of .edu sites to comment.
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Lovely ideas… But i really appreciate and loved the idea of hiring a graduation student to create a .edu value backlink for you… Wonderful point indeed..!!
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.gov and .edu hold high weight as compared to other domains. If you are lucky enough to get good back links from such websites your rankings would show you the difference. Getting content back links from .edu and .gov will surely affect your rankings be it your niche or not.(But that’s only one way out of many to improve your rankings). Now it’s up to you friend, I may not be having sufficient knowledge, but I am sure about this thing.Keep Blogging!!!
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I don’t think .edu / .uk matters, in my opinion go for .com if not anything is the same.
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very nice tips to start making back links that is very useful for my blog thanks for sharing..
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one thing should be clear that every body have to work on creating backlinks, its a tough part,….
you hVE TO SPEND TIME N UR TIME REWARDS YOU
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In recent times many people have experience including myself that without too many back-links you can still generate lots of organic traffic. Specially in the case of new blogs.
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Awesome tips ..
thanks for sharing
This will be dam useful for getting safe back links and availing Higher positions in SERPS for long run!
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This sounds really great but I learnt .gov links being hyped are just myths. They don’t yield higher results as expected. How true is that?
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Hi Leith thanks for the unique tips i get more information through this post most interesting points in my way is 1st and 3rd .
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i read your post its very unique post and commenting is very important and must part of blogging and 2 (i) and (II) both are innovative points, really thanks for the sharing me
Hey thanks for sharing these great tips! I am always looking for ways to build links for my blogs and I found some really interesting suggestions in your post!
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Back links are important, so I do so many every week. Geeting good back links is a must have.
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Thank you, These method are really great. I will try postjoint method.
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Wonderful suggestions. With the tight competition in online business, it is important to maximize of the resources available.
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Nice tips specially the ‘student blog’ one. Can you give a detailed information where I can find US students to work for me?
A small correction: Suit 101 has been shut down for backlinking.
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This sounds really great but I learnt .gov links being hyped are just myths. They don’t yield higher results as expected. How true is that?
These method are really great. No doubt back link is so important. Good job.
wow great post and very helpful for me as well.
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back links are very important for a blogger this is a good idea. great
Nice tips Leith..
quality backlinks are very useful for a blogger for getting a good reputation in online field.Even backlinks are helpful in getting good rank in search engines and hence good traffic.You share nice tips for getting quality backlinks.Thanks for it.
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