White hat ways of getting high quality .edu backlinks?

Cristian Level X³

July 26, 2016, 3:05 pm

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What are some legit ways of getting quality .edu backlinks? I don't want any blackhat techniques where everything is automated. Just pure ideas of getting .edu links.

I'll start with the only .edu high-quality, site-wide anchor backlinks I manage to obtain in my SEO career.
So I wanted to increase the website authority of a popular Medical Facility. I decided a .edu link can improve their authority and therefore rankings quite a lot.
I've looked at about 3 universities in that area that also had a Medical School. From these 3, one of them had a dead Student website&blog that was dead and unused. So I contacted the student counsel offering a full Wordpress blog implementation and design in exchange of a sitewide backlink on the university's main website. Worked like a charm and everybody was happy in the end.

What techniques do you guys have?

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Lynne

Great idea Cristian, quite ingenius of you!

10 years ago

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Cristian

Thank you! The core of the idea got it from someone else I think. I'm sure I read it somewhere, or at least something similar that stuck in my mind for future use. White hat ways of getting high quality .edu backlinks?

White hat ways of getting high quality .edu backlinks?

10 years ago

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vinaya

That's a great idea. I know many schools and colleges that have websites but these websites are dead. I might them offer my help to revive their websites in return for backlinks to my site. I have a domain called freeclassroom.info I am thinking to start an online learning program on this domain and I think having quality backlinks to my site from dot edu will add value to my site.

9 years ago

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Corzhens

I agree with the comments that it’s a great idea. However, isn’t it too much time that you spend just for that backlink in the edu site? I know that a high authority site can give you a high quality backlink but I never imagined that it will need some espionage skills just to place your backlink in that authority site.

8 years ago

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