Why .edu & .gov Sites Are Credible, & How to Get Links from Them

Getting new and modern SEO tips and techniques is what everyone is looking for. And since SEO has become one of the major factors about the popularity index it is not that hard to notice that there are many cheap methods and tricks available littered in the internet that promises to provide a great website. And getting a good PR rating for our websites has been linked to the back-linking of many trusted websites. And what could be more trustworthy than a Government or educational website that could come up to the aid of getting our website ranking boosted? It is indeed a great achievement to back-link our website to a .gov or an .edu sites. 

 

Practically, for .edu, the sites those are associated to universities, colleges, scientific centers or laboratories. Similarly the official site that provides links to the official archives related to education, business, commerce, travelling generally ends with .gov. It is generally perceived that a back-link from these sites will provide a higher score by Google. But the fact lies that since these are highly credible sites that has quality content and selected articles, even which are properly reviewed before publishing. Also the other credible sites that make use of this links or websites as a reference, they create a more traffic for the website so they are so much highly ranked by Google. They also can pass under the high authority tag and enjoy a lot of off-site links containing high quality content. Thus having a link to such site is always welcome if we think on the lines of SEO as Google and other search engines relies on accuracy, timely and best result for the queries made so credibility and reliability matters the most.

But still the problem lies in the fact that these are high security website as well and getting a link to them is the most critical task. Though there are many websites which promises to provide such back-links at a cheap price or in exchange of a connecting their website to our website, it is highly unethical and unimaginably risky. Also if there are any such ways we can procure the links to these sites easily, then obviously the market will be flooded with websites with such links thus ending so called the uniqueness and importance of such links.

So let us find out the ways we can get them to our benefit in a proper way. There are experts but they seldom discuss it in the open as it is very rare that people have made some inroads in making them possible so secrecy is necessary for maintaining their own marketability. One way of securing such links is to get back to our schools and colleges and locate if there is any official alumni directory. If it is there we can easily get a back-link by posting our content over there. Also we could get in touch with newsletter or magazines these institutions publishes and are sometimes interested in interviewing the pass-outs or graduates so if we can get to write about company too, including a link to our websites even then it will create a valuable link. Moreover many institution or websites having an .edu extension hosts forums and if we able to secure an approval for an account we can have literally a back-link goldmine as per experts. Getting links from universities or educational institutions becomes fairly easy if our websites has educational content such as statistical data, or public survey information, or any result related to the research from a genuine source.

But getting a link from Government site is not that easy as it is in case of .edu sites. Government sites usually links only to other Government sites and seldom allows outsiders entry. But if we become a reliable source for any purpose that Government want to create in any area we may request to receive a link to the relevant local Government department. But we can receive these links indirectly through other websites or organization as charitable trust, or NGOs, or training events which may have the privilege of having a link to Government website but lack in fresh and quality content. By providing them with our service in their forums with high quality posts we may gain an access to these links by allowing a do follow optional link to our own site.

So the bottom-line is we can easily avoid unethical methods and still get ourselves linked to the websites which are the jewel of the crown in the internet. And there is no point in worrying if we do not get direct links as there is always a chance we can be related to them in an indirect way.