Even though Wikipedia added nofollow tags in early 2007, backlinks you manage to snag there will still help you from an SEO standpoint. Please share your knowledge regarding this topic.. is wikipedia still useful for SEO?
JessieJames27, I agree with you. I have a website about Indian Classical music. The website is listed under many topics in wikipedia & am getting traffic from wikipedia every month. Regarding SEO, I believe google doesn't show wikipedia links as backlink for any websites, but I believe it gives weightage to the links from wikipedia. I think so as the links are from content & Google give weightage to links within the content. This are my views & lets see what others think about it....
Can you please share how you got your site listed on wikipedia. Did they just picked up or you submitted it or what's the scoop?
Ann india I would like to visit your site which listed in wiki.. Can you pls share your techniques and site details with us ? Thanx John
The site has a rich resource for Hindustani Classical Music. The website is http://www.itcsra.org/ . In the website there is a wide collection of ragas to listen. Under Hindustani Classical Music in wikipedia, the website is listed under External link. Also under some of Indian Classical Musician like Rashid Khan, ITCSRA has a link. I have not posted a single link in wikipedia. These links are posted by someone else. As per my knowledge, if you create a account in wikipedia & has a important information regarding a page, then you can edit the text but keeping in mind the terms & conditions of wikipedia.
If your approach is concise and authentic wikipedia will definitely help you, while editing a page remember to contribute with useful information rather than just leaving your link there.
Look, listen and learn! It's all about relevant helpful content. You just need to find your niche and keep delivering informative and useful information. From pure SEO point of view links from Wikipedia are not useful (as they're "nofollow"), but in terms of targeted traffic (in this case in indian classical music niche) such links are extremely important. Traffic you receive from links on Wikipedia is very narrow targeted which will for sure increase conversion rates on your page.
Wikipedia gets loads of Google traffic and give credibility of your links though it is no follow up, I hope it help; http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/413/SEO-Can-Wikipedia-Help-Your-Business/
I noticed some pages that people add alot of links to sometimes get their links sections removed entirely. That being said Wikipedia links are great for traffic.
Wikipedia links have been tremendous for traffic. Unfortunately, though, someone there considers my links to be spam even though it leads to original useful content.
In my opinion, its great for driving targeted traffic. And with traffic, there's always the potential for someone to link to your site. On a side note, I've submit one of my sites for inclusion so many times that they've actually threatened to ban me if I submitted again. So careful how you word your submissions. They must be very informative and completely unbiased.
I can trump a Wiki link with a link from Alive & GoGuides. Ohh and you forgot the fact the other 90+ points of SEO would need to be addressed as well.....
I've got many links from wiki to my projects. They effectiveness vary a lot. In some niche these links generate a lot of traffic, in other not. Another questing, which have no official answer - what about trust rank. Wiki is very trustfull resource for google and probably it can increase some trust rank, but there is no official information about this. I'd like to say this is a SEO myth.
Hi, I'm interviewing artists on one of my site, and when they have a page on Wikipedia, I put a link to the interview in the external links section . Usually the links stay there and I've just noticed for one of them that parts of the interview has been integrated in the main article with references to my page. Not too many visitors, but some recognition of the work as is. However, when I try to put links to more general informational sites, they are usually erased within hours. I guess the trick is to direct to some real content. But for the ranking, I have no idea if it helps or not For the artist I'm talking about, I'm at the end of page two for his name on Google.
luxs hit the nail on the head - TrustRank is the greatest thing you'll get from being linked from wikipedia. Yes, you'll get traffic (maybe) but your site will be considered an "Authority" site of linked from wikipedia. That's why soo many seo's try to game it.
It won't help you from an SEO standpoint (rankings-wise). What you're seeing is a spike in traffic, which has nothing to do with increasing your rankings. The only possible connection I can see is that someone sees the link in Wikipedia, checks out the site, and then decides they like it enough to reward it with a link of its own on their site without nofollowing it.
Let’s take this example. Say you were able to secure an external link on the Wikipedia page about cats, here. Congratulations. You just snagged a dofollow link on a PR 4 page, here. Answers.com is one of the many legitimate sites that scrapes content from Wikipedia, and it’s an authority one at that. They were nice enough to keep the content they scrape from Wikipedia dofollow. So how many backlinks will you pick up in the future from that one Wikipedia link? Too many to list, provided your link stays on Wikipedia for any length of time.
yea i think it`s important to have at least 1 link in wiki, but as backlinks , doesn`t help you ... nofollow = as it is no link ...