Recently, I have shared info on how to find high pagerank education and government dofollow blogs easily using google search terms. I have been trying to run some link building campaign for Atniz blog too. I never have concentrated on getting .edu or .gov backlinks before. As most of my backlinks is from .com, .net, .org, etc tlds. Digging trough education blogs makes me realize that only some education blogs gives dofollow value to commentators and comment text body.
From these handful dofollow education blogs, most of them are heavily spam. I have shared about it in Dofollow Education blogs are spam nets. Today, I am just going to make this point stronger by sharing some of the blog post with high PR[3,4,5] referred from page’s PR that gives dofollow value to commetators using anchored keyword. I know it is tempting to get a backlink from .edu dofollow blog especially from high PR pages with anchored keyword. But, NOT from this list.
Here is a good example of bad neighbourhood pages. Take a look at their comment links. Most of them have anhored link to adult, gambling, etc. It is easy to get listed there as it is auto approval. Lack of moderation makes this blog as spam harvested pages. I would like remind here, whenever you come accross this type of pages, STAY AWAY.
PR5 http://blog.brookdalecc.edu/article.php?story=20090419004616713
PR4 http://law.case.edu/grotian-moment-blog/entry.asp?entry_id=374
PR4 http://diva.sfsu.edu/blog/04-20-2009/using-content-outside-of-diva
PR3 http://erebus.nmt.edu/blog/post/index/12773/Size–83–Eruption
PR3 http://law.baylor.edu/blog/post/Discipline-is-Key-to-Law-School-Success.aspx
Popularity: 12%
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Do follow back links are essential for a website to be highly ranked in search engines. The difficult part of SEO also is finding of such blogs to comment.
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We shouldn’t attempt to post links in these Spam filled sites which will adversely affect our rankings
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Well It looks like most of the above webmasters smarted up and either changes their policy or completely removed the blog…… You are right about bad “neighborhood links” they can have a negative effect on your own site. Nice to see someone promoting an ethical backlinking method
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Always I heard that EDU or GOV links are useful. Now I am thinking about these kind of links after read your post.
I have a question; what if have links from not related sites to your topic with high PR? which means, does anchor of link text can change content completely?
I hope you can understand my point and will answer, thanks!
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Work At Home Reply:
August 8th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Gov and edu links are good as they have good backlinks from public. But, unmoderated blogs are just similar to spam nets these days.
If you have a choice of getting anchored text link with keyword from related sites is better than having anchored keyword link from unrelated sites. Relevancy gives good credit in SERP increase.
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Definitely Reena,
We are following your blog and also your tracks, I myself spotted these link harvesting blogs which are equal to bad neighborhood in the eyes of Google!
But I don’t think they are going to affect your Serp rankings because,
Your competitor can leave your links on these sites and harm you, but Google doesn’t regard your backlinks from link farms but the links you have at your site..
If they are pointing to link farms or bad neighborhood then you will be in trouble!
What do you say?
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Work At Home Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 4:54 am
I’m not sure about it too. That is why, I mark those links as nofollow. I don’t want google to index it. This is just to show a bad example of pages that we all should avoid.
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You definitely want to avoid bad neighborhoods……the Google police are watching! (LOL)
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Work At Home Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 4:48 am
Yeah Matt. You’re right. I don’t want to lose hundreds of google referred traffic to this blog. It’s precious. LOLz…
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High PR Bad Neighbourhood Education Blog List??
Whay?
But edu blog, i thought these blogs are all great…
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Work At Home Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 4:47 am
Now, most of unmoderated edu blogs are spam nets. Just stay away if you come across this type of pages.
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Rightly said by you, most of the high PR blogs are filled with spammers, especially if the blogger does not have the habit of moderating the comments.
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Work At Home Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 4:25 am
Exactly. I don’t know why blogs that are not moderated are getting high PR too.
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damn it’s tempting, but i’ll stay away
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Work At Home Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 4:25 am
Good step Eric. I’m just showing an example of links that we should stay away.
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