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Get Links – How to Get .edu Links

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” – William Shakespeare.

Hallo everyone and welcome back! As you have probably guessed, today we will go ahead and look at yet another way of obtaining links. As usual, this will be a way that could only come by via critical thinking process. This type of behavior almost always leads to unconventional results (Matt Cutts wants to penalize it). I have to warn you, once you start thinking in this manner, there is no way back.

Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), http://moodle.org/, also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Sounds very professionally complicated and important. We really don’t care at this point. We want a big and heavy links. We want them now. Let’s dissect this bad boy to see what’s up. After all, it’s not what we can do for Moodle, it’s what Moodle can do for us.

The Moodle system is designed in such a way that every user has to register before accessing any resources. After registration this user will have useful functions (for us) – profile customization and blog creation.

Let’s first get something out of the way – how do we find resources based on Moodle? Like many similar engines or management systems, this one has its footprint in the snow. For example, the notice “You are not logged in. (Login)” on all pages.

This being said, let’s go ahead and enter inurl:user/ “You are not logged in. (Login)”. To make sure we are clear, we want to see only the domain types we need. We need only the best. For exampe – .edu will do just fine. Since this platform is widely used for education purposes many of the domains are going to be .edu. Pretty logical or just pretty. Before we move on and start acting on this information, let’s list several possible ways to search for these resources. Based on the suggestions below, you should be able to take it further if the need presents itself:

inurl:blog/ “You are not logged in. (Login)”
“You are not logged in. (Login)” moodle
inurl:blog/ “You are not logged in. (Login)” site:(edu or anything else)
inurl:blog/ “You are not logged in. (Login)” moodle

One more important aspect here is that this system is international. This means, it is used all over the world, in many languages.

Let’s pick Italian from the drop down menu. As soon as we do that, in the top right corner, our main footprint changes from “You are not logged in. (Login)” to “Stai Utilizzando un accesso da ospite (Login)“.

After this illustration, it’s clear that this resource can be utilized for regional optimization and advancement.

Hey guy, what about actually getting the links? Yes I remember, let’s get .edu links. Following the search methods from above, we can easily stumble upon resources like this one: http://moodle.selma.bsu.edu/moodle/.

Let’s go ahead and create a profile http://moodle.selma.bsu.edu/moodle/login/signup.php? Fill out all the boxes and agree with the rules. Please note, some of the resources will not let you register if you are entering strange and unusual names. Once I entered socially acceptable names I received a registration confirmation email. In addition, getting the confirmation email after registering on some of these sites takes hours, and this is because some of the sites have admins sending letters by hand, so watch out for the batmans and supermans.

Let’s go ahead and click on the confirmation link in the registration email. On the page that opens up, let’s find our name in the top right hand corner and click on it. Next, let’s click on Edit Profile.

Now we see the field named Description, in which we can write anything we want. I have an idea, why not type in a link or something? Here is a quick little example: http://moodle.selma.bsu.edu/moodle/user/view.php?id=3073&course=1

A little note, I thought you might find it important, the links from here are all dofollow. Yes, but what about Matt Cutts? I don’t know. Continuing. We can amplify the effect from these links, by writing a text around it that has keys we want to feed to the spiders. Another little detail from above to remember, is that some of these sites are heavily moderated. They are .edu sites after all, so this shouldn’t come as surprise to anyone. In such cases, somehow link wants to hide either via color (discoloration, blending), in the smile-anchor, or any other method in style that day. Funnily enough, the entry box editors allow a lot more than they should.

On the very bottom of the page we can easily find a Show Advanced button. Do we have to click on it? A window opens up with additional fields. We need the one that says Web page. It must not remain empty (hint: a link?).

On a side note, I did not see any doorways on these resources, which means two things: these resources have not been discovered (yet) and they are carefully moderated for doorways and redirects.

Since we addressed how to get .edu links from the profile, we now also notice that we could create blogs on here as well. Unfortunately, not all resources grant us access to the blog. For example, you will not be able to see a post on this profile http://moodle.selma.bsu.edu/moodle/blog/index.php?postid=274. In addition, Google doesn’t index the content of these pages either. Hmm?

Now what? Don’t give up, continue thinking critically here. Let’s look at another resource, that we find out doesn’t have this issue: http://ascent.cse.unt.edu. How did we find this resource? We used the search methods above, of course. After registering, let’s click on the link in the top right hand corner. Then click on Blogs, then click on Add a new entry and fill out all the boxes. The most important box here is a drop-down menu – Publish to:. We need of course: Anyone in the world.

Here is a sample post, with text and a dofollow .edu links: http://ascent.cse.unt.edu/blog/index.php?userid=869&courseid=1. Posting to these blogs requires patience, and accuracy. The velocity needs to be slower, if there are too many posts too soon the profile will be deleted and address range blocked. Once everything is moving along, our post will soon appear here: http://ascent.cse.unt.edu/blog. Yet another important detail: your post is not the only one that will appear in there, everyone’s posts will show up as well. This is a good way to see what others are doing.

Below are a couple of additional resources that allow us to get .edu links via one or both methods described above:

http://ascent.cse.unt.edu/
http://moodle.selma.bsu.edu/moodle/
http://www.guamcc.edu/online
https://umconline.umcrookston.edu/
http://moodle.oesd.wednet.edu/pahs/
http://www.npss.prn.bc.ca/moodle/
http://www.glejme.com/moodle/blog/

That’s it. Thank you for taking part in this critical thinking experiment!

Beck @ ProfitSEO.com

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