Every Tuesday we pick a vertical market based on the number of votes a market receives at our Vertical Market Poll. This week it is the Education market. We invite all of you out there to post (in the comments) a specific link building recommendation for the education market (a good directory, authority website, blog, link search, etc.). If it adds value, we will approve it, give you the credit and a “dofollow” link to your site. However, we will just delete stupid, irrelevant, spammy comments – only truly useful information will be allowed.
So you might be thinking "why in the world do schools need to work at getting inbound links? Heck, I am trying to get links from .edu’s!" Let me assure you there are many educational institutions out there conduction link building all the time. Admittedly, most of them are for profit or career colleges, but we know of many traditional schools building links to specific pages such as MBA and continuing education programs.
A word of caution: the affiliate business in the education market is huge. Many education affiliate sites are very well done, have high PR and are pretty well established. However, if you look hard enough, you can get direct links from those sites as they do need a number of outbound links that are not affiliate links. With that said, here are some sites that link directly to educational institutions, they are PR3 to PR7 sites. All of them were found by checking the Google backlinks of just two schools – one career college and one public school. Image what a thorough search would provide.
At Campus Explorer, it is not obvious how to get your school listed here, but you should make the effort. This site has over 3,500 Google backlinks to the home page. Each school detail page has a direct link to the school along with a detailed description. We suggest you use the contact us form at the bottom of the page.
Students Review has a couple ways for you to participate. The obvious one is for students to review your school, but they also offer a forum which seems to be a bit unmoderated (if you know what I mean).
Peterson’s is a PR7 site and will take a little work for you to get listed. They have many affiliate links but there are plenty of pages that have direct links to schools. Most affiliate sites do need non-affiliate outbound links to help with their rankings. Try the contact us at the bottom of the page.
College Tool Kit is pretty interesting. Lots of great info and a PR7. Looks like you will also need to use the contact form at the bottom page.
Edu Registry is an affiliate site, but has a nice list of schools by state. Looks like you need to use the email address at the bottom of their page to contact them.
RateMyProfessors is a bit of a social site and it is pretty obvious what needs to be done here to get a link (or many links). Reach out to some of your students and go for it!
US School Directory is a pretty straight forward site listing schools by state. Looks like you need to use their contact form to request a listing and they may require a reciprocal link.
OK – there are 7 really nice opportunities for links TO education sites. Now lets hear from the rest of you. Place your advice for link building for the education market in the comments below. Those that are accepted will get a nice "dofollow" link from us.
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[tags] education links, career colleges, schools, edu links, students review, school directory, vertical markets, education niche, education market, link building [/tags]
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June 24th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
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June 26th, 2008 at 1:32 am
As SEO enters the classroom, there are many professors having their students use, operate, and manage many web tools we use every day (after all, its the best way to learn). As a recent college grad, I sought out other online marketing related classes in open conversation; particularly, social networks and for this example, blogs.
The blog UPEI – BUS442.0 is a blog run by a college professor on Prince Edward Island. He uses the blog for exercises and requires his students to create posts. Linking to this blog, students were even more engaged in mine because they were getting response and feedback from another college student.
I’m not sure if this counts as a linking strategy, but professors teaching internet based marketing are only going to be growing.
June 25th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
As SEO enters the classroom, there are many professors having their students use, operate, and manage many web tools we use every day (after all, its the best way to learn). As a recent college grad, I sought out other online marketing related classes in open conversation; particularly, social networks and for this example, blogs.
The blog UPEI – BUS442.0 is a blog run by a college professor on Prince Edward Island. He uses the blog for exercises and requires his students to create posts. Linking to this blog, students were even more engaged in mine because they were getting response and feedback from another college student.
I’m not sure if this counts as a linking strategy, but professors teaching internet based marketing are only going to be growing.
June 30th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
We are a company in the education space (our website provides math homework help). We sell to both schools and parents.
We want the schools to do the best job possible getting the word out to students about our website, so we go all out in that direction:
a) We show them how to link to our site from their web pages.
b) We have a file they can print to hand out to parents describing our service.
c) We have a brief video on our Educators page summarizing our service.
d) We have a 10-step program for teachers telling them how to best integrate our service into their program
e) We send teachers a monthly e-letter with the acutal usage of our service by their students.
And still, we see great variation in the usage from school to school, and it is our ongoing mission to refine this further.
PS If your teenaged kid could use some help with their math, please check us out!
June 30th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
We are a company in the education space (our website provides math homework help). We sell to both schools and parents.
We want the schools to do the best job possible getting the word out to students about our website, so we go all out in that direction:
a) We show them how to link to our site from their web pages.
b) We have a file they can print to hand out to parents describing our service.
c) We have a brief video on our Educators page summarizing our service.
d) We have a 10-step program for teachers telling them how to best integrate our service into their program
e) We send teachers a monthly e-letter with the acutal usage of our service by their students.
And still, we see great variation in the usage from school to school, and it is our ongoing mission to refine this further.
PS If your teenaged kid could use some help with their math, please check us out!
July 8th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Don’t miss the education blogs — there are plenty out there! You can start at mine (http://www.xanga.com/dextr) and follow the webrings to get started.
Also submit your site to teachersourcebook.com. They check your site out pretty throughly, but if you are a valuable resource for educators, you can have a free listing online and in print, and we’ve found that the traffic from it is good.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Don’t miss the education blogs — there are plenty out there! You can start at mine (http://www.xanga.com/dextr) and follow the webrings to get started.
Also submit your site to teachersourcebook.com. They check your site out pretty throughly, but if you are a valuable resource for educators, you can have a free listing online and in print, and we’ve found that the traffic from it is good.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Hello,
I link build for several career education and education directory websites and I’ll briefly go over some of the strategies I utilize.
Sorry if these are fairly obvious:
1: Analyze competitor websites: This is a great way to find high schools, library, and education sites that are already linking to sites like yours.
2. Making phone calls: When I come across library links, especially, I like talking to the librarians about possibly adding our sites as resources. This, many times, can increase your conversion rates.
3.Follow up: I have found a lot of success doing follow up emails to webmasters, librarians, counselors etc. It is just a good reminder for these busy professionals.
4.Thank you: Always be polite and courteous. If they add your link be quick in thanking them. Who knows, maybe you’ll get another link in the future from them.
5. (site:*.k12.*.us inurl:guidance) This is a good way to find guidance pages on high schools websites. Many times education professionals will be looking for education resources. Try different variations of this search query.
Hoped some of these tips helped. Thanks.
July 11th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Hello,
I link build for several career education and education directory websites and I’ll briefly go over some of the strategies I utilize.
Sorry if these are fairly obvious:
1: Analyze competitor websites: This is a great way to find high schools, library, and education sites that are already linking to sites like yours.
2. Making phone calls: When I come across library links, especially, I like talking to the librarians about possibly adding our sites as resources. This, many times, can increase your conversion rates.
3.Follow up: I have found a lot of success doing follow up emails to webmasters, librarians, counselors etc. It is just a good reminder for these busy professionals.
4.Thank you: Always be polite and courteous. If they add your link be quick in thanking them. Who knows, maybe you’ll get another link in the future from them.
5. (site:*.k12.*.us inurl:guidance) This is a good way to find guidance pages on high schools websites. Many times education professionals will be looking for education resources. Try different variations of this search query.
Hoped some of these tips helped. Thanks.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
@Beauty – Happy to give you the text link – excellent advice (for all vertical markets)!
July 11th, 2008 at 8:52 am
@Beauty – Happy to give you the text link – excellent advice (for all vertical markets)!
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
@ Beauty — I wouldn’t have thought of the guidance pages idea — not obvious at all! Thanks for sharing.
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:08 am
@ Beauty — I wouldn’t have thought of the guidance pages idea — not obvious at all! Thanks for sharing.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:42 pm
As a new education site, this post has been really helpful. Thank you, and congrats to all of these sites on good information and awesome features.
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:42 pm
As a new education site, this post has been really helpful. Thank you, and congrats to all of these sites on good information and awesome features.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Thanks for sharing the information about different useful educational websites including their required information as well
October 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Thanks for sharing the information about different useful educational websites including their required information as well
November 13th, 2008 at 4:51 am
There are several squidoo lens about Education and Learning that are dofollow. Also, a lot of article pages are dofollow also (www.articlesnatch.com, for instance). They allow comments above all articles, you need only search for the most related to your website.
There are also several dofollow forums that allow links on signatures.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
There are several squidoo lens about Education and Learning that are dofollow. Also, a lot of article pages are dofollow also (www.articlesnatch.com, for instance). They allow comments above all articles, you need only search for the most related to your website.
There are also several dofollow forums that allow links on signatures.
December 12th, 2008 at 7:21 am
i was also trying to get links from sites (back links) but it was a totally flop activity for me and now i am turning to wards dofollow blogs and other forums. but cant get enough in it. can u help me in this?
December 12th, 2008 at 12:21 am
i was also trying to get links from sites (back links) but it was a totally flop activity for me and now i am turning to wards dofollow blogs and other forums. but cant get enough in it. can u help me in this?
December 30th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Hello, My Forum is a Do Follow and I’ve supported this movement since its inception!
Please add me:
http://www.makemoneykingdom.com
Keep up the great work!
December 30th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Hello, My Forum is a Do Follow and I’ve supported this movement since its inception!
Please add me:
http://www.makemoneykingdom.com
Keep up the great work!
January 9th, 2009 at 4:56 am
http://www.MyNextCollege.com has “dofollow” commenting allowed on the site and in the forum. The site gets a lot of traffic, and this can be a good resource for those interested in the education niche.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
http://www.MyNextCollege.com has “dofollow” commenting allowed on the site and in the forum. The site gets a lot of traffic, and this can be a good resource for those interested in the education niche.
January 12th, 2009 at 7:47 am
Great Job, ive bookmarkes these, dont know how far ill get, true, education do-follow blogs and posts are rare. im going to start a big one -charles-
January 12th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Great Job, ive bookmarkes these, dont know how far ill get, true, education do-follow blogs and posts are rare. im going to start a big one -charles-
January 21st, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Awesome post, and great job finding the links.
http://www.lifelearning.org/ is also another one.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Awesome post, and great job finding the links.
http://www.lifelearning.org/ is also another one.
March 21st, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Great little site, loads of good presentations there, thanks
March 21st, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Great little site, loads of good presentations there, thanks
March 24th, 2009 at 9:08 am
The best way of link building when it comes to an education project is by articles submission.And and creating lens in squidoo and getting baclinks from different social bookmarking sites like digg, reddit etc ! Excellent post looking forward to read more views of others!
March 24th, 2009 at 9:08 am
The best way of link building when it comes to an education project is by articles submission.And and creating lens in squidoo and getting baclinks from different social bookmarking sites like digg, reddit etc ! Excellent post looking forward to read more views of others!
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:58 am
Hi this is an extremely informative site!
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:58 am
Hi this is an extremely informative site!
April 3rd, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Thank you so much for the information, I have checked few sites and they are giving a backlink, I appreciate your post mate.
Kind Regards
July 18th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Thanks for this list of blogs. I will try it in the days…hope my ranking will increase!
July 26th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
I am glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the great suggestions, and I agree 100% – peer recommendations and criticisms are really helpful in wading through the sea of apps.
http://www.hotelkhoj.com/
November 10th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Awesome education links but a lot of them are hard to get into.
December 7th, 2010 at 5:49 am
This site is really so helpful as it provides new lesson and knowledge. Keep sharing such stuff.
January 19th, 2011 at 3:49 am
Thanks for this list of blogs.
February 23rd, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Probably one of the most helpful articles on the internet. At least for someone in my position at a college.