Get a free .edu blog

December 23, 2007 by
Filed under: Link Building 

*Looks like the host nuked the blogs, so I now declare this post obsolete.*

I was originally planning on not even writing this… but here goes nothing. I get a lot of people to email me about getting a free blog post on my PR2 .edu blog. Today I stumbled upon yet another university that gives away blogs, but the difference is with this one anyone can register as many .edu domains blogs as they want.

Obviously a university that is giving away free .edu blogs to anyone is going to be easily abused and prone to massive amounts of spam, but just for those of you looking to boost your page strength you can go ahead and get your own free .edu blog.

Please know that a .edu link provides zero extra benefit to a normal backlink, but for some reason people still crawl to the ends of the internet looking to gain more of them. If you come across people begging for .edu links (which you will if you read webmaster forums), go ahead and forward them to this post. If you really want to be evil, you could most likely even sell blog posts and blogroll links on your new .edu blog(s) for a profit.

Comments

21 Comments on Get a free .edu blog

  1. Sudarshan on Mon, 24th Dec 2007 1:34 am

    2. Thanks a lot for this free .edu link posts :)

  2. Binh Nguyen on Mon, 24th Dec 2007 7:42 am

    3. Interesting. I might go back to my university and ask them to give me a link. How valuable can it be? Can I register a .edu domain name for a online education course?

  3. Collin LaHay on Mon, 24th Dec 2007 9:44 am

    4. You have to own an actual university (not a high school or elementary school either) to get a .edu domain.

  4. Fadi on Mon, 24th Dec 2007 9:39 pm

    5. Can you ftp to those blogs? Can you ad plug-ins ?

  5. Collin LaHay on Mon, 24th Dec 2007 9:43 pm

    6. I don’t believe so, it looks like the standard install of WordPress MU so all of the plugins and presentation is locked.

  6. Fadi on Wed, 26th Dec 2007 6:53 pm

    7. I don’t remember how I found your blog. But this is the only other blog i frequent on a regular basis. I already got myself several blogs from that website. I recomend you make several DUMMY emails and then go to the site and make accounts.

  7. Ethan Christ on Wed, 26th Dec 2007 9:00 pm

    8. Nope, you can’t even change the theme. But hey, it is a .edu domain. Use it to your advantage, sell links.

  8. The Link Building Cookbook | Mixed Market Arts on Mon, 7th Jan 2008 8:21 pm

    9. [...] Part 17 – Get a free .edu blog [...]

  9. Ziva - Home Business Resources on Tue, 15th Apr 2008 11:46 am

    10. Oooops, looks like this sign-up page is gone.

    Any other options out there for .edu blogs?

  10. stewart on Tue, 29th Apr 2008 7:50 am

    11. sorry i got a question…
    sell links for edu blog will that be panalize by google?

  11. Web Development Blog on Wed, 30th Apr 2008 8:42 pm

    12. @stewart – no you won’t but google isn’t stupid, so don’t buy to many links.

    This doesn’t work any more as I get a 500 Server Error :(

  12. Stewart on Fri, 2nd May 2008 5:38 am

    13. Web Development Blog,

    ya, i see… i will slowly work out on this.

    just make sure not spam :)

    Thanks for your advise

  13. Noble on Fri, 2nd May 2008 11:21 am

    14. Cannot signup. The page display 500 error.
    But thanks for your advise.

  14. adda4u on Sun, 8th Jun 2008 11:23 am

    15. i am looking for this articles from long time

    Thanks man ..I need .edu articles if u have more plz provide me either web sites list or abt the .edu blog articles

    Thanks
    -Sri-

  15. Cole on Wed, 18th Jun 2008 7:14 am

    16. Just got this error message: “500 Internal Server Error”

  16. Total home gym on Mon, 15th Sep 2008 3:59 pm

    17. LOL i got 404 error messAge.

  17. blog sedekah on Mon, 19th Oct 2009 8:26 am

    18. yeah..i find this link was error..404 not found

  18. glutamina on Sat, 11th Dec 2010 11:25 am

    19. Not work!

  19. Watch IPL Live on Sat, 16th Apr 2011 3:02 pm

    20. Please help its not working!

  20. Minecraft cheats on Sat, 20th Aug 2011 4:15 pm

    21. I can’t get it to work. However its from 2007 so that might be why.

  21. Cashino on Thu, 15th Dec 2011 10:18 pm

    22. Thanks for the info, I am going to make one soon.

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