I have heard of some people using wikipedia as a way to promote a site. What is the best way to use wikipedia for SEO?
In a word - NO. Wikipedia automatically adds rel="nofollow" tag to all outgoing links which means you will get no SEO juice from a link on there whatsoever. To search engine it is as though there was no extra link to your site. However considering massive traffic wikipedia gets, you could get secondary SEO juice as your site will be introduced to many people some of whom may end up linking to you. So to sum it up - a link on Wikipedia will not help your SEO, but it could help make some people aware of your site which could result in back links and that would help your SEO Hope that helps
This will not help your SEO either. All external links get rel="nofollow" tag added to them ,regardless of whether it's on an article page, your profile page or a page particularly about your website. With nofollow tag applied to every external link on wikipedia, you will get no SEO juice from having a link there.
yes no use as they have No follow links,,,else it would become all link posting centres rather than some good information centres
Wikipedia does not only use nofollow, but your spam-related attempts will be deleted either by editors or people contributing to keep "SEO-seekers" out of the game.
Although Wikipedia itself does not give any link juice other sites do copy their content so Ninjashoes is correct, also Wikipedia is a great place to get traffic if your link is helpful to the community.
You can get traffic from wikipedia but if you are looking to get a backlink from wikipedia then that is not possible as they now use nofollow tag for external links.
i tried to edit a page in Wikipedia and put my link on that page, it might not help in backlinks but it is a great source of traffic
Try to spam in wiki and your message will not last in seconds...no way to advertise there unless you have your own wiki...
Thanks for the advice. I was thinking about doing a wikipedia page for a herbal research company not to spam. It sounds like other than a possible increase in traffic, it probably won't help pr.