We all know that link Building for you’re a website will improve the Search Engine Rankings and organic traffic for the website. Internal and External Links are very powerful in SEO Strategies. In fact, all the Content Marketing strategies are performed with the view of  build links for the websites.

Every SEO analyst should be aware of getting external links from website because the links coming from any spammed or low quality website will lead your website to meet any penalization by Search Engines. Besides Article Submission, Link Baiting and other link building techniques, the efficient and strategic way for Link Building is to get links from Educational Websites and Government Websites (i.e.) build links from websites with .edu and .gov domains.

Here we descvribe 5 simple techniques to acquire links from .edu websites. This is simple and free but requires some more time.

1.     Build Links through Blog Comments

Similar to building links through Commenting in blog posts, we are acquiring links here by commenting. But the difference is this is .edu blogs.

Here you need to find .edu blogs relative to your task. Hence we suggest a tool named Drop My Link which will show all the websites based on your keyword.

As shown in the image, select the requirements based on your needs. Now we need .edu blogs. So we give .edu and category as Blog Platforms. Then enter the Keyword based on your Business and click Search Button. Now you will find the .edu blogs for your Business.

Here the important point to note that select the blogs which have high PR Value and start commenting to the blog and provide your website’s URL.

2.  Acquire Links from other Bloggers

We have to build links in some .edu blogs which have no comment feature. Then there is a simple way through which we can acquire more links from many .edu blogs.

You need to find the blogs which provides more informative and relevant contents relevant to your Business.  You can do Google Search to find the blogs. Once you foind the Blog posts, filter them by selecting the blogs which provide contents frequently and the last content published before one month or two months. Select 1tleast 15 blogs.

Then create a blog post with Heading like “The Best Bloggers” or others relative to your task. Create content explaining their work on post, add their photos. Once you published the post, let them know by sending emails with your Blog’s URL and request them to build link for your website.

3. Build Links to .edu websites’s Resource Pages

Similar to getting from Educational Sites with the way we described above, building links to the Website’s Resource Pages. The only difference is we need to find the resource page of .edu websites. There is a simple way to do that search.

For instance, we need to find .edu websites’s resource page for web designing. Then we want to enter it as site:.edu Web Design + inurl: Resource.

You may use your keyword after .edu where we specify web design. Select websites with high PR Value and Domain Authority.

4. Get Links by targeting Local Resources

 You may know and possibly see some websites owned by Schools and Colleges provided a list  like distance between their institution from Railway Station, Bus stand and so on. They are also providing list including the nearby stores and others in the city.

For example, you are an owner of lending library in Chennai. Now you want to get a link for your site from schools in your city. Begin your search in Google by entering site;.edu Admission + Chennai. Websites powered by Schools and Colleges providing such information in Admission page. Hence we search for admission page.

When you get the list, contact the required person to request for build links to your website. 

5. Get Links from Alumni News Section

The other efficient way to build links to Educational Websites is build links from the Alumni News Section of the particular .edu Website.

Register your profile in the Alumni section in website. Then contact the website owner to build links to your website.

We have described just five simple techniques to acquire links from .edu websites. There are many other ways to build links from the sites based on services. You can find them by using the search criteria “site; .edu + (your required ones). Then contact the suitable person via Email to build links for your website.