There are several methods that can be used to find .edu sites that will link to you. Recently a specific method was shared with me that I liked so now I am going to spread the love and share it with you.

To find .edu sites in Google that will link to you do the following search query in Google
site:edu +”Powered by WordPress” “keyword phrase”

To find .gov sites in Google that will link to you do the following search query in Google
site:gov+”Powered by WordPress” “keyword phrase”

To find .mil sites in Google that will link to you do the following search query in Google
site:mil+”Powered by WordPress” “keyword phrase”

To find .com sites in Google that will link to you do the following search query in Google
site:com+”Powered by WordPress” “keyword phrase”

Ok, so now that you know the search queries to use to find these sites allow me explain what this method is and why it works.

This method is based on the idea of finding blogs that you can comment on and add you link into the comment therefore gaining a link back to your site if the comment gets approved. Since you are using the phrase “Powered by WordPress” in your search query you are narrowing your search down to only WordPress websites. As you probably know WordPress is a Blog / Content Management System (CMS), this means that most of the sites found will allow commenting on posts.

Of course you do not want to find just any site, you want to only have relevant sites linking to you and this is why you use the “keyword phrase” in the Google search query. And since your using the .edu, .mil, .gov sites it ensures that the sites are quality websites.

The + forces your search to have the following word in it and since the following after the + is an exact phrase (it is within quotes) it will only show results that include that entire phrase.

The last part of this search query to break down is the first part of it site:mil this tells Google to only show results from sites with the .mil extension (TLD).