Many colleges and universities encourage professors
and students to blog, which gives you plenty of .edu
opportunities.
This is the foundation of all other tips. Even if
you knew about getting links from college and
university blogs, there are still many valuable tips in
this report. You need to keep reading.
So, how do you get backlinks? Simple. You just need
to post a comment on a college or university blog and
the backlink is created. Voila!
Note: Even if you know that .edu links can be
generated from college and university blogs, there is
one major problem:
Finding these blogs!
Even if you can find a list of college blogs, for
example, there is still the problem of finding ones that
actually work for you, again and again.
I'm going to make this VERY clear in the next few
pages. I'm going to show you how I generate
tons of free .edu backlinks using college and
university blogs.

IMPORTANT


FIRST:

Keep in mind as you find college and
university blogs, that you really ought to post highly
relevant comments. Go out of your way to provide
value when you post comments, or your comments
will get killed.

SECOND:

Do not post the same exact comments on
every single blog. You want to avoid “blog spam” as
you generate your links. If you're not adding value and
your comments are not unique enough, you run the
risk of getting banned by Google.

THIRD:

Some people might feel that these tactics are
“black hat” or “gray hat” search engine optimization
(SEO) but our position is that if you are providing
value, there's no reason that you shouldn't enjoy links
from .edu sites.


Tip #2:

Finding the right blogs
It isn't enough to know about college and university
blogs. You need a weapon to find the right blogs
under the right circumstances.
The weapon of choice is definitely Google. You just
need to know how to manipulate the search engine
with the right input, and you'll get the output you
want.
Here are the first two secrets:
site:
inurl:
So, your search query should start like this:
site:.edu inurl:blog
This tells Google to return a list of results that
includes .edu sites that have blogs. Last I counted, this
will result in about 842,000 results. Here's a small
glimpse of what you'll get with the search above:




Tip #3: Even More Focus

You want the “sweet” .edu blogs. Ones that don't
cause you any pain or grief. Don't do any work until
you know you're going to strike gold.
Right now, your search query looks like this:
site:.edu inurl:blog
This is good, but it isn't great. You want to narrow down your
search to only those blogs that allow you to comment on
them.
There are plenty of closed blogs, i.e., blogs that are on .edu
sites but you cannot post. These are a waste of your time. So,
you need to adjust your search query to look like this:
site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment”
This will drop your results down to 400-500K, depending on
the day you search. I don't know why it fluctuates, but it
does. In any event, that's still 400-500K blogs available to
you.
Are you ready to rock and roll? Nope.


Tip #4: Garbage Removal

You still need more focus. To do that, you have to
remove more garbage. You need to eliminate blogs
that force you to log in. You need to ignore blogs
where you cannot comment.
At this point, you've narrowed your search using the
following search parameters:
site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment”
The problem is that many blogs are not open to comments
(i.e., they're closed). So, you need to add another parameter.
You need to add a subtraction parameter to eliminate blogs
that are closed to comments:
-"comments closed"
So, as you can see, you are subtracting blogs where
comments are closed by using the minus sign as well as the
“comments closed” text.
But, you're not done! You also want to remove search results
where the blog forces you to register and log in. Do you have
time to create an account and log in just to leave a good
comment on a blog? No way! So, you need to add another
subtracting parameter...
-"you must be logged in”
When you do this, you filter out blogs that require you to
register. This doesn't always work, but it is very effective.

Tip #5: Special Sauce, Please

You've got just the blogs you care about, but now it's
time for one last trick: finding the right blogs for
your niche.
Here's the (almost) final result:
site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment” -"comments
closed" -"you must be logged in”
We use this trick all the time to find outstanding .edu
blogs. We then post high quality comments and we get
excellent backlinks.
We also get good traffic from .edu blogs when we post
high quality comments. So, if you make the
investment, you will get good backlinks (i.e., Google
Pagerank boost) but also direct traffic from smart,
interested readers on your topic.
That leads me to the next point. You can add another
word or two to your search to get exactly the right
blog. For example, just add “weight loss” to the search
string and you'll find .edu blogs that are openly
discussing the topic, where you can post your
comments and get excellent backlinks. Result:
site:.edu inurl:blog "post a comment" -"comments
closed" -"you must be logged in" "weight loss"


Tip #6: Google Toolbar

If you're looking to rapidly fill out blog comments,
give Google Toolbar a try.
You can rapidly update Google Toolbar with your
name, email address and web site URL. Then, you can
focus on your comments on the blog.
If you're trying to whip through a bunch of blogs then
Google Toolbar can help you work magic. However...
It is important to post quality comments. If you don't
you'll get them deleted. Also, remember that there is
value in the traffic from the links alone. There's more
to consider than just backlinks.
Bonus: You can quickly determine the Pagerank of
the blog using Google Toolbar. This is pretty obvious
but it will help you decide if your postings is worth the
effort or not.

Tip #7: Notepad (Cut-N-Paste)

When you want to post the same material to many
blogs, why not just use a little cut and paste?
Write up a really good (general) blog posting on a
topic related to your niche in Notepad. Save it. Then...
You can do the searching using the tips above and
then you can simple cut and paste your responses into
those blogs. Combine this with the Google Toolbar
technique and you can easily crank out 10-15 high
quality blog postings in an hour. It works.
REMEMBER: Although you are using cut and paste,
you'll want to make each posting from blog to blog
unique. You want to use cut and paste to streamline
the process, not automate it 100%. You want to avoid
getting blacklisted by Google!
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That's it. You're ready to rock and roll.
Start cranking out outstanding comments on
.edu blogs and get the backlinks you want.