.edu and .gov Backlinks for Ranking

A quick summary of how powerful backlinks from .edu and .gov site can be.

Traditionally, .edu and .gov sites have a large hierarchy of administration. To get anything published on one of these sites has to go through many layers of approval. Educational sites either have to have the boards sign-off or one has to be a member of the university and access to the web server. This is no easy task. Government web sites are also inundated with processes. This said, many of the search engines highly regard backlinks from sites with these extensions. They are hard to change, manipulate or spoof. Many SEO and web developers will tell you that the search engines give a more weight to these backlinks than many others. While having backlinks from huge PR1 sites, it is also considered very valuable to add a few .edu and .giv backlinks to your strategies.

There is no secret that these backlinks are important, but the real task is to create content or files on your computer that these institutions find very valuable - enough to link to that is. Remember, there are many people involved at these institutions and all you must do is convince one of them that your content is worthy of some attention.