Find Trusted Backlinks when Commenting
by Frank Jovine on 01/10/2009 in SEO Tips
I have read so much about the effectiveness of commenting on other blogs within your niche to establish a few things;
- Backlinks that are do-follow
- Building reputation
- Creating a fan following
These are all good and there’s just that little extra that can build more trust with Google if you target blogs that are (.edu and .gov). Google loves these sites as they are highly trusted. It’s some what challenging to find a blog with one of these extensions that are do-follow blogs, but like anything else, you have to dig to get to the goods.
It’s important that you leave quality comments on something within your niche that you know well. Put that extra effort in commenting by providing examples and or references, it shows you are passionate about the subject matter.
To find government or educational blogs use the search string below in Google.
inurl:blogs +(gov|edu)
If you have other ideas please share them with us.
Happy commenting!
freelance writer
Jan 10th, 2009
Good info. I did find an .edu blog that I posted a nice long comment on that was highly relevant to my niche. The link was a no follow, but I still think it really helped me in the search engines. My niche is pretty competitive, so it is very hard to rank for the best keywords. But I did start showing up on Google, Yahoo, and Live for some decent words. And I had many first page rankings. So I agree with you; links from the .gov and .edu sites are worth a little work.
Kelli
Frank J
Jan 10th, 2009
Awesome! Do this once a week with the goal of getting one quality link from either a .edu or .gov site.
In time you will build a lot of trust with Google.
Adieska
Jan 10th, 2009
Great suggestion. Thanks for share it
Frank J
Jan 10th, 2009
Good luck with it, and I do this at least once a week and try to get at least one .edu and one .gov linking back to this site.
Kashif
Jan 12th, 2009
Most of these domains do not pass link juice so you would be lucky if you find few that do pass PagaRank.
Frank J
Jan 12th, 2009
Kashif,
It’s a challenge finding do-follow blogs that are .edu or .gov, but I found a few and I am still hunting down more.
Stock Market
Mar 16th, 2009
That is very useful information about gaining do follow links.
Frank J
Mar 16th, 2009
If you apply it, you will get good results.
Dave Hucker
Apr 5th, 2009
I’m inclined to agree with Kashif on this one. However, in the era of ‘hope and change’
, one can always remain “hopeful” that G will “change” some of its methodology for judging pr.
Nevertheless, it is a good linkbait. Thanks Frank, I’ll be checking your blog archives for other fun and useful reads.
Frank J
Apr 5th, 2009
Dave,
Thank you for the comment and I glad to share.
Ricky
Jun 4th, 2009
It is true that most of the website won’t pass the juice to your website.But it is a good practice to try your luck
Frank J
Jun 5th, 2009
Ricky,
It’s all about quality and trusted sites linking to your site that will improve pagerank over time.
Jessica
Jul 24th, 2009
Great Post ….There was a time when the Goggle Algo gave high prominance to websites that linked to .edu and .org . This prominance has lowered since the last few updates , it no longer validates these links high. It give more importance to quality link backs.