It is so hard to keep a link in Wiki because my site has a couple products on it for sale. Any advice? Should I keep trying to put my link somewhere in that site or will it have detrimental effects on my rankings/site because I keep trying to place a link there? Advice? The site is also very 100% related to the pages.
I just put up one of my links about 24 hrs ago and its still there, got 7 visitors from it already but i dont know how long its going to last. The last time i did it, it was removed in a few hours. Good look!
if you don't have something with great quality, don't waste your time like OP... selling stuff is not a problem, as long as the page has add good quality to wiki, it will stay
Huys for goodness sake STOP SPAMMING WIKIPEDIA. Unless your site is unique and enhances the content of the page you are spamming it. It pisses me off that people abuse good resources.
you can add your links in discussion area and they usually wont get removed but it has to be relevant to the subject.
Yeah spamming wikipedia is not good (either for you or the people who run it) When you have something that may be noticable submit it only once.
I have this same problem with a music wiki I have, its constant work just to stop the spammers, STOP IT!
i agree shouldnt be used for promotion but some of my sites really ad value and content to the wiki but still get deleted. I have basically given up as i tried emailing them etc.. but didnt seem to matter.
Hate it when I am on the site reading about some good stuff, and find links to viagra (what the hell does that have to do with the Milky Way Galaxy?), porn, and people selling everything else. Now I can see why the editors there spend so much time removing links instead of cleaning up the other crap on there.
But isn't that the problem with Wiki? What you think is value others think is spam! I added a link to one of my sites, I honestly thought it was of value to the 'man on the street', (I still do) but someone else didn't. Quite honestly, some of the more perminant links in some of the catagories are (IMHO) so far up their own a**es that for the average searcher they mean very little. Wikipedia had been hijacked by the interlectuals and doesn't provide the more basic information that most casual surfers require - as I say IMHO!
What defines an acceptable external link on Wikipedia is itself a hot topic. Just go to the talk page for Wikipedia:External_Links for the endlesssssssss discussion. I had trouble keeping my link on because one person felt that no advertising should be on any external links at all. After months of back and forth (I had several editors on my side, but the revert wars continued) that I generated a text-only version of my page just to shut them up. The page has clear "for the full, illustrated version, click here" pointers on it which take it to the regular, monitized page. Not as good as a link to the full site, but it keeps my toe on an important page, and hushed the critics. About 25% of my wikipedia visitors click through to the regular page.
And the worst is that many of those spammers are hosted on free hosting services that sooner or later quick them off leaving useless information. I just deleted dozens of those dead links several weeks ago, but take some time before wikipedia updates its own index.
There was just a long thread about links on Wikipedia in the Link Development subforum: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=133418 I think 98% of all links that get deleted from Wikipedia articles deserved it. If your site deserves to get a link from the article because it's just so helpful, someone will add it sooner or later.
That might be why my rugby forum has links from there, and also my Wales only directory. I did not add either.