Almost every site that you see nowadays is talking about links and especially about how to generate them. But, did you know that some links seem to have more value attached to them than others?
More specifically, were you aware that links from .edu and .gov site seem to have more importance attached to them than links from ‘ordinary’ .com, .net and .org sites.
As with most things to do with Google, then only people who really know how true this notion s are the Google folks themselves, but there is certainly a logic to the idea.
After all, it is possible to manipulate links from ordinary domain names, but far harder to do so with links from educational and government establishments, and you would naturally assume that those links should carry more weight too.
But, how do you find sites like these, .edu and .gov domain sites that are willing to link to sites in your niche? Here’s how…
Run a standard Yahoo! search using your main niche keyword.
This will produce the top ten sites in your niche, so you then take the first domain name and type it into Yahoo! in exactly this format:
‘linkdomain:competingsite.com inurl:.edu’
And, hey presto, you’ll have a list of .edu sites that are carrying links to your competitor.
Now all you need to do is follow up and request a link for your own site from the same .edu establishment. Alternatively, check the site to see whether you are able to ‘register’, in which case you can probably create the link yourself from within your profile.
And of course, exactly the same works with .gov sites as well, so give it a shot and let me know how you get on by leaving a comment.
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