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Here’s a little trick for anybody looking for .edu or .gov backlinks. There might be easier ways to get links from these highly coveted sites, such as buying links but if youre willing to put a little effort into it and not abuse this trick, you’ll find it a rewarding experience. To start, many .edu and .gov sites have blog and allow comments on the blogs. Please remember to respect the blog owners and DO NOT SPAM them as you will only ruin the internet experience and spammers suck in general. Here’s how to find the blogs using a simple Google search :

A basic Google search using the following search criteria will show you the blogs you will be looking for :

Search for .edu domains with a blog relative to your website’s keywords

site:.edu inurl:blog “your keyword(s)”

Search for .gov domains with a blog relative to your website keywords

site:.gov inurl:blog “your keyword(s)”

Enter your relative keywords where the phrase keyword “your keyword(s)” appears and you will see numerous blogs with those .edu extensions appear. Contrarily, if you substitute .gov for the .edu and you will find the sites with .gov extensions.

PLEASE NOTE: When commenting on a blog post within these blogs DO NOT SPAM irrelevant comments just to get your link on the blog. This purpose of this post is merely to point out an effective method of finding .edu and .gov blogs using a simple Google search.Any and all comments that you leave on the blogs you find should be on topic and should be relevant comments with your url entered only where it allows. Please be aware that .edu and .gov domains usually have quite strict policies regarding comments left on their blogs, so please, as with any blog, DO NOT SPAM for the sake of a backlink or you will find your efforts futile.

Kudos to Cbarker,ws - Resonate Equilibrium for the concept and search string information.

Happy Publishing,
Dave

         

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Just in time for Halloween, the internet has had it’s first widespread massacre and coming back from battle is the victorious Google, carrying it’s opponent’s head on a stake, dragging the corpse of the fallen SEO (Search Engine Optimization) through the mud.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your monitors, for it is with great sorrow we mourn our fallen comrade. While SEO’s death may not be apparent to the omnipotent network bloggers and marketing gurus who routinely game the search engines to stuff their pockets full of more affiliate cash, it is painfully obvious the peon webmasters and bloggers that we are no longer considered a contributing factor in the internet’s development.

In a recent turn of events, B5Media has convinced Google to fix their network blogs Pagerank. I guess you have to be a network blogger and hooked up with B5Media to get anything done when your blog or website gets slapped by Google. Apparently several of B5Media’s network blogs were bushwhacked with Pagerank penalties in the recent update but Brian Clark at copyblogger.com is reporting that after one of the B5Media representatives got on the phone with Google, his site’s Pagerank, which had been reduced to PR4 from PR6 has been re-adjusted to a PR7. It also appears that Darren Rowse’s problogger.com has also been restored to PR6 from the Google beatdown to PR4. It must be nice to have friends on the inside of Google to get them to take notice of your site and personally make changes to it’s Pagerank. Unfortunately, this is not going to sit well with the scores of non-network bloggers who have been unfairly penalized and for all the other webmasters who were penalized in this update.

Victor at Mobile Marketing Watch is one of the non-network bloggers caught up in Google’s frenzy to exterminate paid-links, and his article Google Dinged My PageRank gives another side to the story, although he doesn’t have the power of B5Media to re-adjust his Pagerank.

Hamlet Batista has published an excellent, in-depth article PageRank: Caught in the paid-link crossfire that details the computation of Pagerank and the trickle down economics that govern Google’s alogorithm for applying it to websites.

SEOBook’s Aaron Wall speaks up here regarding Google Pagerank :

Since Google is demoting PageRank’s viability as a site’s global authority score perhaps this is a time for Yahoo to bring back WebRank, or Ask to launch something like CommunityRank. The Google-webmaster relationship is fraying. This presents an opportunity for whoever wants to take it.

In my opinion, I really don’t think Google Pagerank matters anymore and for the most part Google search is irrelevant for getting high quality traffic to your blog or site. Most webmasters have already learned that being active in forums and commenting on high quality blogs brings them more high quality traffic and returning traffic than Google or Yahoo ever will turn you. Plus 90% of search engine traffic will “bounce” at a much higher rate than traffic gained from effective social networking.

Whatever Google’s reasoning for continually attacking the webmaster community, it will eventually backfire on them because in all truth and reality, the whole text-link selling and web-directory niche markets arose specifically due to Google’s Pagerank. It strikes me as odd that a multi-billion dollar company who is raking the money in with their overvalued stock will actually cut the throats of the community that put them on the map.

SEO is dead, Google killed it, long live Social Networking.

         

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This weekend, Google released it’s long overdue toolbar Pagerank update. Although most SEO’s and experienced webmasters are aware that Google has been shuffling rankings on daily basis resulting in what has been the highest qualty search results ever, many novice webmaster have been crying out for a toolbar Pagerank update since late July when the last one was supposedly due. This update from Google has seen huge “Google Slaps” with numerous high ranking sites being punished for buying or selling text-links.

Below are some websites, who seem to have taken a hit overnight:

• The Washington Post PR7 to PR5
• Forbes PR7 to PR5
• Chigago Sun-Times PR7 to PR5
• SFGate.com PR7 to PR5
• StatCounter.com PR10 to PR6
• MasterNewMedia PR7 to PR4
• AutoBlog PR6 to PR4
• Engadget PR7 to PR5
• ProBlogger PR6 to PR4
• CopyBlogger PR6 to PR4
• JoyStiq PR6 to PR4
• Tuaw PR6 to PR4
• SearchEngineGuide PR7 to PR4
• SearchEngineJournal PR7 to PR4
• John Chow PR6 to PR4
• Quick Online Tips PR6 to PR3
• Weblog Tools Collection PR6 to PR4
• Andy Beard PR5 to PR3
• Search Engine RoundTable PR7 to PR4
• Blog Herald PR6 to PR4
• Clush Directory PR7 to PR5
• YouTube PR8 to PR3

A genuine suprise in the list is the Google owned Youtube dropping from PR8 to PR3. The hits on The Washington Post and ForbesMagazine are equally as dumbfounding. I’m not sure why Darren Rowse of Problogger, John Chow and Andy Beard were penalized but it’s not like the top bloggers really need Google to get visitors to their sites. On the other hand, many small publishers who have never bought or sold text links and have used natural White Hat SEO techniques have been rewarded with huge jumps in their Pagerank. I have been very fortunate in this update, seeing this blog rise to pr4 and also seeing many of my other sites jump from PR0 to PR3 or PR4 within a few months time. Love it or hate it, the dance is finished for now and congratulatins to those of you who have seen a rise in PR.

         

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