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Go to Google and search for ringtones, cialis, viagra or any other profitable niche and you will see something similar to the image above. This is called edu spam.
As you might know, *.edu and *.gov domains rank way better in search engines (Specially Google) than any other TLD, and that’s exactly why some search engine spammers are using those domains to promote their landing pages/affiliate sites.
How do they do it? Well if you look closely you might figure it out by yourself… But for those lazy ones here is a quick explanation of this technique:
- Find forums/guestbooks installed on *.gov and *.edu domains. You can find them with Google using a query like this: site:edu OR site:gov “Forum”
- Drop your link there – Most of them will accept live links, and if they are vulnerable to XSS you can do so much more like redirecting to your site automatically with JavaScript
- Make the spiders crawl that site (QUIT?)
- Repeat
Of course the moar the better, so you might want to code a tool to automate the process and get more links.
EDIT: Here you can find an example on EDU spamming (Scroll down to the bottom)