Search engines are giving a lot of importance to the number and quality of backlinks a page get. If you want your blog or site to rank high in Google result pages, you have to have lots of backlinks, from quality sites.
.edu sites are often seen as quality sites because the .edu TLD is reserved. This is why many SEO experts thinks that .edu backlinks are a very good thing for your site. In this article, I have compiled more than 150 .edu websites, blogs and forums where you can comment and get a quality backlink for free.
Please don’t abuse those sites. If you leave comments on some of them, make sure your comment ins’t spammy.
Why .edu backlinks are great for SEO
Created in 1985 as one of the first top-level domains, .edu was originally intended for universities and educational institutions anywhere in the world. During the 90′s, some non educational persons or organizations managed to get a .edu domain, such as england.edu, which is a commercial site.In 2001, registrations of .edu domain names has been restricted to post-secondary institutions and organizations that are accredited by an agency on the U.S. Department of Education’s list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies.
Due to the fact that .edu domain can’t be registered by anyone and are reserved to educational institutions, many SEO experts thinks a backlink from an .edu site is good for SEO, because Google is seeing the .edu site as a serious source.
Commenting guidelines
While it can be tempting to pick up my list and post quick messages on the listed .edu sites just to get a backlink, I’d like to insist on the fact that spamming has never been a good SEO technique.
You should pick up 5 to 10 sites per day, read one or two blog entries from each site, and leave an useful, non spammy comment. Remember that SEO is a long distance run, not a sprint.
Finally…the list!
Enought talk for now, here’s is the list. There’s a bit more than 150 links, just in case some of them don’t work anymore.
http://blogger.psu.edu/
http://blogs.berkeley.edu/
http://statemuseum.arizona.edu/blog/
http://blog.uwgb.edu/artsmanagement/
http://gsc.mit.edu/blog/
http://www.career.umkc.edu/?p=blog
http://blogpublic.lib.msu.edu/
http://www.dmu.edu/blog/
http://www.amcollege.edu/acupuncture-massage-blog/
http://blog.utc.edu/TheLoop/
http://150.ateneo.edu/blog/
http://3dna.rutgers.edu:8080/
http://aaa.uoregon.edu/blog/
http://aar.slu.edu/
http://abhijit.mahato.pratt.duke.edu/blog
http://abroadblogs.newpaltz.edu/blog/
http://aceop.wvstateu.edu/blog
http://blog.admissions.cornell.edu/
http://admissions.fsu.edu/blogs/
http://admissions.ncsu.edu/blogs/
http://aearu.ntu.edu.tw/guestbook.htm
http://ag.arizona.edu/calswomen/scripts/guestbook.html
http://aipi.clas.asu.edu/blog/1
http://aiti.mit.edu/blog/
http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq/
http://alpha-omicron-pi.uchicago.edu/guestbook/guestbook2.html
http://alpha-omicron-pi.uchicago.edu/guestbook/guestbook4.html
http://alpha-omicron-pi.uchicago.edu/guestbook/guestbookentry.html
http://alpha-omicron-pi.uchicago.edu/guestbook/guestbookopening.html
http://alumni.brandeis.edu/web
http://alumni.gsb.stanford.edu/
http://tomprofblog.mit.edu/
http://answer.rutgers.edu/blog/
http://antarctica.uab.edu/blog/
http://aphia.rso.siuc.edu/guestbook.html
http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/community/blog.cfm
http://apps.exploratorium.edu/blogs/ls/
http://apps.pathology.jhu.edu/blogs/pancreas/
http://archery.berkeley.edu/phpBB2/
http://architecture.tulane.edu/blog/
http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/forum/user/register
http://asic.union.edu/guestbook.html
http://asunews.asu.edu/blog/5603
http://www.rioredstorm.com/
http://atif-az.org/blog/
http://auroraforum.stanford.edu/
http://badgersabroad.wisc.edu/blog/
http://ballroom.union.rpi.edu/
http://bases.stanford.edu/
http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/blog/
http://beef.unl.edu/
http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/blog/index.htm
http://bizalum.nus.edu/forum/forumyaf_forum.aspx
http://bizalum.nus.edu/forum/forumyaf_topics18_Controversy-Forum.aspx
http://blackout.gmu.edu/forum/interviews.html
http://blog.case.edu/
http://blog.case.edu/webdev/2007/07/13/seo1
http://blog.dickinson.edu/
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/secondlife/2008/12/10/support-your-fellowden-
members-edublog-award-nominee-cliotech/
http://blog.law.cornell.edu/blog/2008/04/02/common-law-definition-of-the-day/
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/schwitz/healthnews/
http://blog.lsc.edu/
http://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/
http://blog.oesd.wednet.edu/
http://blog.smu.edu/
http://blog.smu.edu/forum/
http://blog.smu.edu/forum/2009/02/renowned_planetary_geophysicis_1.html
http://blog.smu.edu/forum/2009/06/research_spotlight_n_texas_ear.html
http://blog.smu.edu/forum/2009/07/international_center_adviser_i.html
http://blog.stanford.edu/node/154
http://blog.stanford.edu/node/42
http://blog.twidox.com/?p=367
http://blog.usf.edu/
http://blog.vcu.edu/
http://blogger.psu.edu/
http://blogger.psu.edu/forum
http://blogger.psu.edu/forum/1
http://blogger.psu.edu/help/basics/activateblog
http://blogger.psu.edu/node%3fpage=20
http://blogger.psu.edu/node/109
http://blogger.psu.edu/node/528
http://blogs.adelphi.edu/
http://blogs.bgsu.edu/cobl/newsletters/issue-6-march-2006-2/
http://blogs.bu.edu/blog/2008/07/how-to-create/
http://blogs.cedarville.edu/president/
http://blogs.cofc.edu/
http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/blog/2009/03/09/welcome/
http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/blog/2009/04/01/everywhere-a-hammer-on-a-nail/
http://blogs.jhu.edu/blog-tools
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/blog/2009/04/28/blog-server-upgraded-towordpress-271/
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/blog/tags/news/
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/forum/
http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/admissions/default.aspx
http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/rarebooks/
http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/reference/
http://blogs.library.ucla.edu/blog/2007/09/12/rss-beta-services/
http://blogs.lynn.edu/
http://blogs.nyu.edu/fas/dri/aidwatch/
http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/help/
http://blogs.princeton.edu/
http://blogs.psu.edu/
http://blogs.psu.edu/blog/
http://blogs.qc.cuny.edu/blogs/blogtutorials/
http://blogs.uprh.edu/
http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/templatedata/2006/12/2006_edublog_awards.html
http://blogs.utexas.edu/blog/2009/03/10/ut-austin-blogs-to-go-production-april-6-2009/
http://blogs.utexas.edu/blog/2009/06/01/university-blog-service-launchestoday-june-1-2009/
http://blogs.uww.edu/
http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/spiders/
http://blogs.wesleyan.edu/blog/2007/09/19/requesting-a-blog/
http://blogsforlearning.msu.edu/blog/
http://blogsforlearning.msu.edu/blog/archives/2
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/52
http://bookstore.esc.edu/
http://boredshit.com/cgi-bin/guestbook/viewguest.cgi?page=4
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/ndf.html
http://bostonreview.net/
http://bostonreview.net/nff.html
http://bpa.odu.edu/
http://bschool.pepperdine.edu/
http://bschool.washington.edu/cfoforum/partners.shtml
http://buffy.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/guestbook/guestbook.cgi?start_number=20
http://bus.utk.edu/forecasting/
http://bus.utk.edu/ivc/
http://bus.utk.edu/ivc/forecasting/
http://business.fiu.edu/greensupplychain/agenda.cfm
http://business.fiu.edu/greensupplychain/index.cfm
http://business.fiu.edu/greensupplychain/newsletter.cfm
http://business.fiu.edu/greensupplychain2009/
http://business.fiu.edu/greensupplychain2009/index.cfm
http://business.fiu.edu/newsletters/BusinessNetworks/2007/01/energy_forum.cfm
http://byuracing.byu.edu/blog/
http://ca.htc.mnscu.edu/grandcanyon
http://www-cyanosite.bio.purdue.edu/
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lixian/cgi-data/guestbook.html
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~pgordon/blog/
http://www-u.life.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/aergc
http://www.accc.uic.edu/itl/
http://www.accd.edu/nlc
http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/news/stories/news4040.html
http://www.acesalumni.illinois.edu/site/about/guestbook.cfm
http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/blog/
http://www.agbioforum.missouri.edu/
http://www.alliance.rice.edu/
http://www.alpstech.edu.ph/guestbook/addentry.php
http://www.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/quarterly/current.php
http://www.alumni.appstate.edu/blog/
http://www.americansentinel.edu/Military/AirForce_AU-ABC.php
http://www.amrita.edu/anantam/home.html
http://www.anc.edu/blogs/index.htm
http://www.anderson.edu/
http://www.andrews.edu/~rjo/guestbook.htm
http://www.anthropology.arts.uwa.edu.au/forum
http://www.antiochla.edu/
http://www.antiochla.edu/blog/library/
http://www.apam.columbia.edu/fusion/US_ITER_Forum.html
http://www.appa.edu/forum.htm
http://www.arch.virginia.edu/struct/pompeii/
http://www.arl.psu.edu/ILEF/index.php
http://www.artcenter.edu/forum/
http://www.articlesbase.com/article-tags/guestbook
Want more?
With the 150 .edu backlinks I gave you, there’s no doubt that you will enhance your blog SEO. But don’t forget that the competition is pretty hard, depending of your blog niche.
I you want to make sure to completely dominate search engine ranking, I know something that might interest you. It is a package of file containing links to sites where you can get backlinks. It looks like my list of .edu, but there’s not 150 sites, there’s 5000!
In detail, 5000 backlinks package contains links to 16 PR 9 sites, 62 PR 8 sites, 171 PR 7 sites, 227 PR 6 sites, 176 PR 5 sites, 139 PR 4 sites, 259 DoFollow forums, 1070 DoFollow blogs, 2500 .edu sites and 50 .gov sites. That’s quite a lot, isn’t it?
The 5000 backlinks package cost $97. I know, $97 is a sum and not something youspend just for fun. But in the blogging industry, if you have traffic, you’ll earn money. And how to get traffic? By search engines, which give importance to the amount of backlinks you have. In other terms, buying the 5000 backlinks package is spending $97 and get $XXX to $XXXX in return.
25 Comments
this is great tip to know about .. had never came into my mind about the effect of commenting on a .edu site.
but i must ask.. why is it that for anything we do and recommend, Google site would have to be emphasize on it? you mentioned ranking high in Google page.. what about the rest of the search engines like Yahoo or Bing?
will this enable SEO for these search engines too ?
cheers mate=)
Wow, you are bold for posting the list!
I hope everyone who reads takes you seriously when you say don’t spam them. I like your commenting guidelines. Perfect.
It is true that .edu and .gov back links carry more weight. I suppose it is because they are seen as more authoritative. But if we ruin it, that won’t be the case, so we must learn to use with reserve.
Getting 1-2 .edu and 1-2 .gov back links is enough. You really do not need more than that. It’s overkill; especially because the competition is likely to have 0! The nice thing about your packet is that since there are 5000, what I would do is randomly pick a couple that I would hope not every spammer in the world would also choose, which would make it well worth the $97 price tag.
The few outbound links a page has, the more juice yours will get, so we don’t want to go where everyone else is going.
So appreciative of the list and will be passing on info re: the 5000 .edu back links to my partner!!! Cheers, Tia
I think it is not easy to build up this .edu list. You have to spend a lot of time to work on it. You deserved to give the credit! Thanks for your sharing!
WOW… you must have spent a TON of time composing this totally informative post!!! MUCH THANKS goes out to you for such an AWESOME article & resources links
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You seems really hit the .edu back link market. For me, I quite satisfy for the free backlink. Thanks anyway.
I sure hope that the quality of the links you are selling is higher than the list above, most of the links do no longer provide the possibility to comment, or have added nofollow.
Hey Jean,
Awesome List buddy.Thanks for sharing this great Post. Great Job.
~Dev
Yikes, 150 edu sites! I checked about 5 of them and the ones I checked are nofollow, but .edu sites can be easier to get links from just from asking for them.
I clicked them all.. They are all nofollow in fact.
Wow! What a huge list. So, you also bought this product? I also have the list of some .edu and . gov sites where I also bought it from a member of warrior forum.
I am glad that you share the 150 .edu sites and I hope the sites on this list works.
Thank you very much for giving it for FREE.
- Blogging Access dot com
I do really agree with @Bruno !
Thanks, but I just want to say that it does not matter that it is .edu or something else. It is all the same. At least according to Matt Cuts
I think .edu links do bring a certain trust rank to your site, and other valuable sites are more likely to link to a .edu blog thus making these links very powerful. But the amount of spam they are receiving is going to make your quest for a backlink that much harder
You know what? Thanks a ton all of you for making moderation of comments and WordPress administration a humungous PITA. If you aren’t going to post relevant content, you in no way shape or form belong on these blogs. Get the f*(K out!!!
Thanks for this list. I just happened to find this blog from a post on Cats Who Code.
I’ve read a few of your SEO articles and agree with your thoughts. I use Theme Hybrid instead of Thematic, but it seem like we have a lot in common with that being the exception.
Despite the warning I still see lots of low value spam comments in blogs. It is a shame that a mindless few spoil things for the rest of us. The more spam that hits these sites the more likely they are to go nofollow or worse still, just turn commenting off.
To all those using this list, and the others out there. DO NOT SPAM! It is not rocket science to come up with an intelligent comment.
Thx for this list, but i think it’s not very good method to promote!
Hi Jean! thanks for the list…as always your post is awesome…
Thanks for such a wonderful resources you are awesome was looking for some solid backlinking & i think this will help me for sure
this is just what i really need right now. thanks for your tips, i think 150 is just enogh for a personal blog. Some people will want more but that is enough for me
Yes, a link is a link! But .edu and .gov are “High-Quality” Authority Links. One high-quality link is equal to 555 low-quality links!
It is “unwritten law” that .edu and .gov links are HIGHLY valued by Google. In fact, most experts agree that Google multiplies their value by as much as 5X over a regular page with the same PR.
Thank you very much for the great help!
I just recently found out about the importance of .edu and .gov sites. Your blog has been the best source for a list of .edu sites so far. I hope everyone will make useful comment posts and not spam. Here’s to Google Juice! Thanks!!!
Hmmm… im having trouble with getting backlinks from these sites you listed.
Is there any other way?
Do you really think spamming 5k forums with profiles is 1. An ethical way of link building and 2. An effective way of link building?
I realise you need to make money but the end result is that anyone buying these services is breaching Google’s T&C’s and are likely to harm their trustrank.
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