Everyone you come across in the home based internet marketing business, including me 
, keeps going on and on about backlinks. Many of them, excluding me 
, tell you to bombard the hell out of article directories with High PageRank as if posting an article to and getting a backlink from a PR6 article directory will magically ensure high PR for your site as well. This is one of the biggest, most misleading myths in the home based internet marketing industry.
I have one word that describes this advice quite beautifully:
“Nonsense”
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Hi Ali,
I like the way you write – entertaining while imparting valuable information. I have SEOQuake, but I’d not thought to use it in quite this way; to search for .edu and ,gov sites that allow commenting.
Thanks,
Peggy
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Hey Peggy,
Glad you liked the post and thankyou for the compliments
Yes, this is one of a few very effective strategies hardcore SEO folks follow to the very “T”.
I will attempt to release more posts giving readers even more tricks of the trade to follow, so stay tuned!
- Ali
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Wow, a lot to process. I just installed SEO quake for chrome. I also got the chrome SEO extension, any thoughts on that tool? Keep up the good posts.
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Hey Navid,
Glad you found the post useful
Yes, SEO Quake released a version for Google Chrome which has been pretty stable in my experience~
Cheers,
Ali
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Nice article though I would have to point out that .edu / .gov are NOT ALWAYS authoritative link sources. Yes generally they are, but not always.
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Hey Donace,
Yes, you’re absolutely right there. .gov, .edu and .org domains may carry a lot of authority in search engine’s eyes, but they will only be of any use in SEO if the content on the sites you post backlinks to is contextually relevant to your site.
Thanks for reading
Cheers,
Ali
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Hey Ali, this is my first visit to your blog. Excellent information here on Back Linking! Top page rank and a target audience, can’t get much better then that. I already have Firefox and SEO Quake installed, a very valuable (and Fr*e) tool which is invaluable when preforming SEO Optimization.
Thanks for sharing this valuable content.
Kevin.
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You’re most welcome Kevin
Stop by for more of these powerful tid-bits, I’ll be writing many more~
Cheers,
Ali
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Hello Ali
May I express my personal appreciation for the above tip! I just wish there were a lot more people around like you, willing to share out freely this kind of high quality information. Good on you Sir! Nice one.
Truth be told… I’d forgotten all about SEOQuake, it’s a long time since I used that particular tool and the idea here – is just superb.
May your year be filled with much happiness and joy and walloping great dollops of cash.
All the very best to you!
Best & kindest regards,
Mark Andrews IMCopywriting
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Hey Mark,
Wow.. I’m flattered.. Thanks! Glad you found it useful
All the very best of success to you too!
Cheers,
Ali
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Ali,
This is perfect timing!
I was going to get my VA to start doing this, but your little trick will make it easier … within one week we can end up with 20 solid edu/gov/org sites pointing back to our launch page and boosting our rankings.
Thanks a lot!
Krizia
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Hey Krizia,
Glad you found the post useful!
Plenty more coming soon~
Cheers,
Ali
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I have to give this a try. I get lost in all the SEO information that is around. I just can not keep up with. Also things change so much on the net. What is right this week can be wrong the next.
This looks like it could work. Thanks for the info.
Andy Beveridge
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Hey Andy,
That’s right! Strategies are evolving on a daily basis as more and more marketers hit the web and add to the competition, especially in the area of article marketing which has seen tremendous saturation over the years.
Glad you found the post useful
Cheers,
Ali
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Hey Ali, I found this article of yours by serching ‘how to make high pr blog’ on google. I’m looking for Quake plugin right now so that I can give it a try. I’m pretty new to SEO stuff so I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks!
I never have that idea about seo quake, except the usual routine it does, screening ranks and links, This is another great tip for my marketing skills, which blends well with the current software I use to improve my Google rank, this software will a help you with your keyword positioning and also suggest niche keywords that would be easy to get ranked on Google..in case your interested you can drop by this site and have a trial. http://www.hotnichesrevealed.com
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Glad you found the post useful @smack21
Thanks for the advice. I did look on the inernet I guess I just didn’t look in the right place. Rich I may be looking your site up in a few months too. Thanks
Hey Larry,
I’m following the path you suggest. Posting to your site and looking for a back link. Thanks for the suggestions.
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Hi Robert, I am glad you found the information helpful. Ali K wrote this awesome article.
I do have a few suggestions for you though.
1. First you should use a self – hosted wordpress blog and get a premium theme such as. Thesis or StudioPress ect..
2. Write between 3 – 5 post every week.
3. Go Here Now ! http://en.gravatar.com/ and upload a photo so people can see who you are when you comment. It’s free to do.
Thanks for commenting!
Larry Rivera
I have been really getting into backlinks for a while now. Your article explained it fully and even gave me the precise way to do my searches. If my SEO guy would have told me this months ago I could have saved a lot of time and money. Thank you!
But all these steps don’t guarantee you that your post will be published, even if it is thoughtful and on topic. Lots of such blogs have a comment form just because it is supposed for blogs to have them. I looked through thousands of such blogs and very often I saw just one or two comments published at all, without links. It is not so easy, really.
Very true, Chris! I think we can all agree, the site owner and the visitors, none of us like spammy comments. And you are right, you could leave 20 comments on 20 sites and only get a couple actually published.
Hi Ali,
Good article, I like the way you share your sense of humor at the same time imparting valuable information. I completely agree on the SEO Quake details you’ve shared, it can really makes things so much easier. And yes! the light bulb started flashing after I started using it SEO Quake
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Wow, this is amazing tips for building high authority links. Using SEOQuake makes it soooo much easier to build and get quick stats about the page! You should have a “donate” button somewhere – I want to
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Ali, you should sell good strategys like this in like an E-book or something
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Wonderful and Useful too.
I have also heard about getting backlinks form high authority blogs have more weightage compare to normal one but I don’t know how to find such blogs and for that which pluign is required.
So thanks a lot for this generous sharing. You have done great help.
Have a wonderful day.
This is to Meg above me, just do a simple search on Google for PR6 or say pr7 blogs. Very easy!!
Wow! Great guide. Never thought of using options like that in a search-string to do a powerful search. A whole new googling world just opened up!
Thank you Larry!
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This is definitely a very effective way of finding high PR sites, I’m using this as well and I can attest that this works pretty good.
I have never used this method with .edu blogs, and I always wonder how ‘powerful they are.’ I often hear about it, but I never tried to search for them in this way, so will give it a try and see if it works. The SEO quake slows my system up too, I try not to use it too much. Never understood that. Thanks for the tips.
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If my SEO guy would have told me this months ago I could have saved a lot of time
I agree with you…it’s a total waste of time to submit articles to high PR article directories…especially now after the Panda Update. The best solution is to stick with contextual backlinks as they are the most powerful
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Contextuall links are the best.
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I agree with Bloggerzcafe that contextual links are the best and yahoo bing and Google are giving them more juice.
Ali, i agreed with you, but now as you read Google new Penguin update, they said its to deindex all links of home based adsense earner websites. so be careful to go fast just get links 1 in a week.
this link will help you http://www.seomoz.org/blog/penguins-pandas-and-panic-at-the-zoo
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