How to get authoritative links. High Page Rank, i don't mean that green little toolbar that show you the page rank of a web page and when i say Authoritative Links, i don't mean only high PR links. Ok now this needs a bit of explaining. First of all page rank of a website is not what page rank toolbar shows you and high page rank sites are not the only authority sites.
Years back search system of search engines was very simple but things are changed now,search process has become more complex. Spammers took the advantage of search engines and used unethical tactics [ keyword spamming, ghost writing, and other black hat seo tricks] to get high ranking in search engines which forced the search engines to take some serious steps to improve the ranking system and to provide the searcher with best relevant results, so they came up with another ranking system so called Trust Rank to measure the credibility of a web site.
What Are High Authority Links ?
A while back links coming from High Page Rank site was considered to be an Authoritative link, and still link from High Page Rank sites have great impact on search engine ranking but basically educational institution & universities sites ( .edu ), government sites ( .gov ) and military sites ( .mil ) are considered as high authority sites because these are non commercial sites and are very trusted. Assumption is that good sites only link to good sites because they don't want to harm themselves by linking to junk sites. So when search engine will crawl these High Authority sites he will find links to high quality sites, he will follow those sites and will find that those sites are also linking to quality sites. Now question is How To Get Authority Links ? without buying them so search engines show some respect to your site.
How To Find & Get Links From High Authority Sites ?
Those who realize the importance of High Authority ( .edu, .gov , .mil ) links will surely jump to this post without reading the previous part of the article, i totally understand the excitement so lets get straight to the point.
Spy On Your Competitors:
SEO Experts says that they have seen proven results that even a single back link from High Authority sites ( .edu, .gov, .mil ) can push your ranking to an un expected good position. So spying on your competetor is a great thing to do, If he is doing great in search engines then its obvious that he has a really good link profile or there are some links from High Authority sites pointing to his site. So check your competetor's incoming links and pay special attention to the sites you think are High profile that you might have missed. I recommend using Yahoo site explorar and backlink watch for this purpose. Once you found those sites, visit them and figure out what kind of links are those, they are comment links, profile links or links coming from author boxes. Then try to get those links. Most of the time webmasters accept links that are relevant tpo the topic and have some good informations, so if your site is good resource of informations, you won't have trouble getting those links.
Find Out ( .edu, .gov, .mil ) Sites Linking To Your Competitor:
One of the online tool that i use most of the time is WooRank. It provides great informations about onpage and ofpage seo of any site. Use this tool to check hoe many .gov, .edu and .mil links are pointing to your competetor's site. You can also use this simple Yahoo search command for this purpose.
linkdomain:www.domain.com site:edu
If you go to Yahoo Search and type linkdomain:www.google.com site:edu, you will get all the EDU sites that are linking to google.com. Now you can put your copmpetitor's site in place of www.google.com and you can also change edu to gov, mil. Find out why those sites are linking to your competetor. If that link is coming from an article then write a better version of that article and you can ask the webmaster to include your article too because of relevancy and good contents.
Get Links From ( .edu, .gov, .mil ) Blogs On Your Niche:
One of the great thing you can do is that you can find .edu, .gov and .mil blogs in your niche. Which is easy way to get High Authority links. There is a simple google search command that can help you finding the High Authority blogs in your niche.. Go to google and type the following:
Keyword+inurl:blog site:.edu
Replace “keyword” with your targeted keyword or key phrase. For example If I’m looking for edu blogs that talk about Blogger Tricks or Blogger Widgets, i can search for Blogger Tricks+inurl:blog site:.edu. And it will give me a good list of blogs that has talked about blogger Tricks. So if you have some top notch articles about those topics that authors are talking about on that blog then webmaster will link to your blog to provide his readers more valuable contents. Be carefull with the keywords because some time Google returns with some junk links if there are not much relevant informations about your targeted keyword or it is confusing..
There might be lot of other ways to find High Authority sites and get free links from them, but i know this much and these are also easy to use techniques. Don't expect for magics. If you use the above mension methods, you will find lot of High Authority sites that can link to you and you won't have to pay for that but it might not be easy. you have to work hard to make them believe that your site really worth linking to.
