SMX Advanced: .EDU Linkbuilding Techniques

Roger Montti aka MartiniBuster on Webmaster World illustrates some techniques to find good .edu pages to get links from by tracking .edu pages that link to your competition.

On Yahoo do the following searches:

linkdomain:competitor.com site:.edu “bookmarks”

linkdomain:competitor.com site:.edu “links”

linkdomain:competitor.com site:.edu “favorite sites”

linkdomain:competitor.com site:.edu “your product or your service” (add modifiers to get list down to less than 1,000 pages)

linkdomain.competitor.com site:.edu sponsors

linkdomain.competitor.com site:.edu donors

linkdomain.competitor.com site:.org sponsors

linkdomain.competitor.com site:.org benefactors

Other modifiers to use: hotlinks, bookmarks, links, directories, resources

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