1. Chapter 1: Ethical Backlinking
edu. SEO MASTERY    
Chapter 1: Ethical Backlinking
by bertranddo.com

2. What is ethical SEO? This term should be taken lightly
Definitions varies from company to company
Ethical to do SEO for sweatshops company?
Is Google Ethical?
Youtube $100M Lawsuits, Ebook Scanning, Warez, etc.
Best practices are constantly evolving
So where does this leaves us?

3. "Treat The Other Like You'd Like to Be Treated."
What is ethical SEO?    
To me being ethical means having some respect for the website owners who are 'allowing' you to get backlinks from them. 
"Treat The Other Like You'd Like to Be Treated."

4. Example of 'Ethical' SEO on my Blog
Good way to place your backlinks
(always gets approved)
Bad way to place your backlinks
(stays in spam folder)

5. More examples from Academia.edu
Good way to place your backlinks
Valuable + well written content

6. More examples from Academia.edu
Bad way to place your backlinks
Poor + Keyword Stuffed + unreadable content

7. Conclusion: Respectful SEODO
Put yourself in the shoes of the website owner 
Strive to add valuable well-written content
Vary your sources
DON'T
Put keywords in blog comments unless allowed by the owner
Abuse a link source (e.g. spam it to death)

8. How to Find .edu Blogs & Forums
edu. SEO MASTERY    
End of Chapter 1: Ethical Backlinking
TOMORROW: 
How to Find .edu Blogs & Forums
by bertranddo.com

9. Chapter 2: Finding .edu Backlinks
edu. SEO MASTERY    
Chapter 2: Finding .edu Backlinks
by bertranddo.com

10. Introduction .EDU backlinks should be part of your SEO Strategy
Avoid buying packets as they are often sold to 1000s
I do not use .EDU forum commenting anymore
Focus is now on my EDU blogs and blog commenting
Search strings will provide you with an infinite source of backlinks, for FREE
Here we will focus on teaching you how the main search strings work, I will send all my search strings by PDF tomw

11. Tools I use SEO Quake (extension for Chrome or Firefox)
   
SEO Quake (extension for Chrome or Firefox)
Google Search Options
Allow at least 50 results on your page
Sort by date and time for the most recent sources

12. Search Strings site:.edu inurl:blog
site:.edu inurl:blog intitle:dog training ~dog training
site:.edu "Powered by BlogEngine/Wordpress"
site:.edu inurl:blog "disqus"
"leave comment" or "post a comment"
-"comments closed" // -"you must be logged in"
site:.edu intitle:dog training "leave a comment" | "leave a post" | "leave a reply"-"comments off" | -"comments are closed"

13. More Search Strings Create EDU blogs site:.edu inurl:wp-signup.php
site:.edu inurl:register.aspx
GOV sites 
site:.gov
site:.gov inurl:blog

14. My entire list of .EDU search strings (PDF)
edu. SEO MASTERY    
End of Chapter 2: Find .EDU blogs
TOMORROW: 
My entire list of .EDU search strings (PDF)
by bertranddo.com