How to Get Gov Links

Like Edu links, Gov links are highly respected and weigh very heavily in the search engine algorithms. Gov links may even be more rare and contain higher value than edu links. If you can just get a few high quality gov links pointing to your site, you can expect a very nice boost in your search engine rankings (and thus increased traffic at your site).

SOME BACKGROUND ON GOV LINKS

The search engines consider the domains of governmental sites and organizations to be very trustworthy because of the huge amount of quality, fact-based content on these sites. Much of the content on gov sites consists of government findings, statistics and other raw data, so it is considered to be very authoritative. Also, it is no secret that these domains are very well restricted. The authority the search engines assigns to these sites flows through to the outbound links emanating from these sites – making them highly sought after backlinking sites. These government sites are so valuable to SEO professionals, their clients and webmasters because text links from these sites give the receiving site a nice Page Rank boost.

GET GOV LINKS

Naturally these kind of links are quite elusive and not available to just anyone. The reason for this is that government agencies and organizations do not want to compromise their integrity and thus take great measures to secure their websites. So how do you get these valuable links then? Unlike other links, rarely can you just email the site administrator or web master and ask for a link. Your chances of actually getting a backlink in such a case is almost nil. Let’s explore a few ways then to obtain gov links.

One way to get a gov link is to become an expert in subject matter that is related to the type of government sites you are targeting to win links from. After creating this killer content, you would then need to research to find the multiple sites you need to request links from and then go through the process of emailing each of them (being careful to personalize each email, as no one likes receiving a form email). For many though, this process is extremely time-consuming and too tedious.

Another way to get gov backlinks is to create linkbait. What do we mean by linkbait? This means you should create some kind of tool, “expert article” or online media perhaps that is appealing towards the government niche sites you are targeting and that goes “viral” in government social circles. Once again though, this is often time-consuming and can be quite expensive. And this makes no mention of the fact that, despite all your resources and time spent building the linkbait, it may not work at all and you may end up where you started – with no gov links at all.

There are still other ways to get gov links. If you search long enough, you may stumble upon a blog that is sitting on a .gov domain that allows comments. Trust us when we say that if you DO find such a place (and there are a few out there – we&rsquo ve seen them), they are filled with bad links. What do we mean by “bad links”? We mean the typical suspects that if you choose to associate your site with, can have a very detrimental effect on your search engine rankings. We are talking about the gambling links, pharma/drug links, etc… You get the idea. What has happened at these locations is a government agency or association started a blog and forgot to close it down at some point and ne’er do wells (whether actual people or bots) get onto the site and fill it up with web spam links. You do NOT want your link on such link farms.

BUY GOV LINKS

There is one final way to get a .gov backlink (or more than one) to your site – that is to buy gov links. This is probably the most practical choice for most people. One word of warning though: if you go this route, you need to be careful who you buy these links from. To buy text links of any kind is an exercise that requires your due diligence as there are many companies out there that have nice websites and appear to be the penultimate professional company, but it isn’t until after the purchase is transacted that you learn that you have just bought 10 shiny new spammy links on link farms. And buying gov links is no different.

At eduLinksNow, we pride ourself in producing the same kind of high quality gov links for our clients as we do with our edu text links. How does a pagerank 5 .gov link with only 3 other outbound links sound? While this is an exception, this is a link that we have in our inventory and the kind of links that we aim to produce for our clients.

Did you know that every edu link package that we offer includes at least one high quality .gov link? Learn how you can buy gov links from eduLinksNow.