Authority websites or websites with high PR (PageRank), quite often websites of the .gov, .edu and .org domain sectors play an important role when it comes to backlink building. A single link from such websites is valued as tens or even hundreds of links from no- or low-PR sites. If you manage to get at least 10 of such links that will refer to your homepage, you will see drastic improvements in your site’s overall ranking.
Usually it is hard to get a link from an authority site. But the growing popularity of blogs has opened a new door for us to acquire such links with just a little effort. Did I forget to mention that these links can be absolutely free?
Many schools and government agencies are trying to incorporate blogs and discussion boards into their websites. These blogs quite often are the same WordPress and other popular blogging platforms that we see on regular sites – the blogs with comments and mild or even no moderation. If only one can allocate such blogs with posts that are somewhat related to one’s website subject, the rest becomes as simple as leaving a decent comment that will be approved by administrators.
So, how do we go about finding authority websites that allow commenting? Let’s turn to Google for answers. You need to know how to create somewhat advanced searches with the help of search directives or operators that we, bloggers and SEO peeps, should definitely know about.
site: – if you precede your search with this operator followed by a domain name or partial domain name, your results will contain all the pages from the given domain name
inurl: – including this operator followed by a word or phrase included in quotes, will give you indexed URLs that contain such a word or phrase
” “ (quotes) – including a search phrase in quotes will give you an exact match for the phrase
AND, OR – if you have a few phrases that you want to search for simultaneously, you may use these operators accordingly
- (exclude) – using dash (or the minus sign) followed with a search term will allow you to exclude pages that contain this term
So, what do we do with these operators? We know that WordPress themes quite often use same wording for particular elements. Just to name a few of the often repeated phrases: “post a comment”, “leave a comment”, etc. If you were to look for a website that is in .gov domain sector and has a WordPress installed within its domain, you could try searching Google for something like this:
site:.gov inurl:blog “post a comment” OR “leave a comment”
[Interpretation: find a page located on a website from the .gov sector that contain the word "blog" in the url and one of the following phrases "post a comment" or "leave a comment" within the page content]
You may also want to search for .edu, .org, .com websites by replacing .gov accordingly. If you want to search for the posts that are related to the subject of your site or a single page, add your keyword or “keyphrase” to your search string.
Some of the keywords/phrases that will help you to locate what you are looking for:
“powered by wordpress”, “leave reply”, -”comments closed”, -”you must be logged in”
Also try:
“powered by expressionengine”
“powered by blogengine”
Good Luck!
