Archive for August, 2008
Finiding those edu links
First off, I’m not convinced that just any old edu link is of any more value than any other link. The main reason that edu links “appear” to have more juice than any other link is that edu tends to attract links without trying. So the extra juice is simply a side effect of all the links, not because of the domain extension.
That said here is an easy way to use Google to help you find those sites that might be interested in linking to you.
In the search field at Google.Com simply type this:
“powered by wordpress” MySuperKeyword site:.edu
That’s it. That search with return all wordpress blogs that sit on an edu TLD. All you need to do after that is find the sites that will allow you to comment and post something useful. I certainly don’t advocate spamming all those blogs, or cherry picking the ones supporting the dofollow movement (I like Greg Boser’s modified version of the DoFollow plugin), but if you have something useful to add, add it.
While we are on the subject of using Google to find a decent edu hosted wordpress blog to comment or post on, you can also do search like this:
“powered by phpbb” MySuperKeyword site:.edu
Remeber, good comments only, no spam!! I’m just sayin’
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The big news this week in link building is the new automation tool for Pligg based websites from Syndk8.
Called AutoPligg, it is designed to make it easy to submit your stories to websites based on the Pligg social networking software. No more creating accounts manually and then submitting your stories to each one. You can build your own niche based network of pligg sites and automate the entire process. Or you can just use the approximately 5,000 pre installed pligg sites and just hammer away at all of them.
Here is a list of features from the website:
- High quality 1 way links to your website
- Automatically register for accounts. Even breaks CAPTCHAs!!
- Create UNLIMITED profiles and indentities
- Submit stories and comment to 1000’s of sites
- Automated pinging after each submission
- Stats to show succesful submissions
- Proxy support
- Increase your page ranking
- Tag friendly
- Flexible features
- FREE lifetime upgrades
- Access to the private forum
- Get indexed in less than 24 hours flat! (google)
- Get indexed in less than 48 hours flat! (yahoo)
All this for $189.00!
This really isn’t any different than using digiXMAS to do your link submissions. It takes the “work” out of sharing your content with others.
I know that a lot of people are going to be screaming about the “black hat” uses for this tool, but like any other tool, it’s not the tool, it’s how you use it. Sure, you could set it to autospam and hammer your story out to more than 3 million pligg based websites, or you could build niche specific lists and submit legitimate stories to the sites that actually want them.
I’d prefer to see you use it to make your niche specific submissions a little easier, but whether you do or not is entirely up to you.
For the record, I used to run a pligg based site but it was so heavily spammed that I took it down until the pligg developers get their act together and actually start considering some level of security and template stability.
