With the rapid development of information technology, "Internet +" has become a new engine to promote economic and social development. Rural revitalization is a major national strategy. Higher vocational education has ushered in new opportunities and challenges in empowering rural revitalization. Under the background of the rural revitalization strategy, as an important position for cultivating high-quality technical and skilled talents, higher vocational education should give full play to its own advantages and actively explore the linkage development strategy with rural revitalization. From the perspective of "Internet +", this study deeply analyzes the opportunities brought by "Internet +" to higher vocational education empowering rural revitalization, the significance, current situation and existing problems of higher vocational education empowering rural revitalization, and proposes to build a linkage development model of "Internet +" higher vocational education empowering rural revitalization. And from the aspects of professional setting and curriculum system reform, teaching staff construction, construction of practical teaching system, innovation and entrepreneurship education, and school-local cooperation, it expounds the specific implementation strategies of the linkage development of higher vocational education and rural revitalization, aiming to provide useful references for promoting rural revitalization. And provide theoretical support and practical guidance for higher vocational education to better serve rural revitalization.