Build Page Rank With .gov and .edu Sites

It is widely debated and accepted that search engines will give more weight or page rank to sites containing .edu or .gov backlinks. Google however has never admitted this as being a part of their algorithm. Most SEO and online marketing experts however will confirm that .edu and .gov links outperform other extensions in terms of search ranking thunder. There are likely many ways to find and gain these valuable backlinks to your site and here are a couple ways that are often used by bloggers, depending on whether your blog has relevant content to educational and governmental websites or not.

Step 1 (Blogs With Relevant Content)
You need to locate these valuable sites that could be a potential backlink to your blog with related content on them. Using the Google operator, site:.edu and site:.gov combined with the keywords of your blog should return a bounty of possible potential choices.

Example site:.edu "keyword"
Or site:.gov "keyword"



Then take your results, sift through it and find the most relative sites to your content and then create a link to their content from your own site. Perhaps even a nice review. Then contact the webmaster of those sites and point them to the content on your blog that could be relevant and valuable to them as well as the review you wrote. (If you chose to write one) You dont want to come across as "begging" or "needy" but come across as "valuable" in related content.

Now if you cant find sites with similar or related content.

Step 2 (Blogs without relevant content)

If your blog does not have content that could be relevant or valuable to educational and governmental websites then you are going to have to look for sites that allow users to create a backlink without ever having to interact with a webmaster. Those would be sites that are blogs (Comment sections) and forums.

Again head over to Google armed with the same search methods given in step 1 but now you will tweak these searches by adding more parameters.

Example : site:.edu inurl:blog "keyword"
Or site:.edu inurl:forum "keyword"
And do the same for the .gov sites as well, replacing .edu above with .gov

This technique SHOULD give you a list of discussion based sites with a .edu or .gov URL that you can comment/discuss on with a backlink to your site/article. Remember your blogger etiquette and do not tarnish your name by spamming all over a site. As well make your comments useful and relevant , after all you are professional and want to come across as such.

I am sure many people are wondering what about the sites that have "closed" or "private" forums/comment sections? Well you can modify the above technique further when searching on google to omit those blogs and forums whose url ends with .gov or .edu and whose forums or comments are "closed". Simply put modify your search even further by adding more parameters.

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

Good luck with your backlinks, I hope these tips prove useful.