Links on Wikipedia

I had a good link to my press release template on the news release page for quite a while... and got great traffic from it. W/in a week of changing the link to my new site's domain (was pointing to the same page before I left a content network before), not only that link, but every external link on the page was removed (even though several were useful tools not on wikipedia itself). If it had just been to something already there, fine... but it kind of ticked me off that someone just decided they weren't allowing any external links anymore on a page that's already severely lacking in quality. So now I'm not really wasting too much time with it. I'd rather focus on efforts that don't rely on the general public being able to alter what I do. It has its place... but make sure you keep your main focus on something more permanent.

Jenn

 

Register an account on wikipedia and contribute content. That way you can reference your site and your link will stay in the references list.

 

Does a link from Wikipedia show up in your backlinks from Google or not, ie, do they carry PR?

Thanks!

 

I have a site listed on a couple of Wikipedia articles. The links have never been removed. The site is pretty relevant though.

yeap.

 

They may not show up as baklinks, since google picks and chooses to show a handful of actual backlinks. However, they do carry pr.

 

I like wikipedia links not only for their trust but for the traffic, it drives A LOT of traffic to my site

 

Wiki Links should be looked at as simple traffic tools... not really as part of a complete back-link strategy.

Very soon, those links will be discounted by the SE's in terms of ranking... but there are other things that can be done with Wiki and several other places that remain golden and rock-solid for excellent back-link fodder.

 

About wikipedia links carrying weight, it seems that the non english versions of wikipedia set a "nofollow" attribute to external links.

I didn't check all languages and all articles, but this one for instance got nofollow in french or german version...

 

Monty, that seems peculiar, I wonder why they would do that for one language but not for the other. Are you sure it doesn't have to do with the specific topic?

 

I know it's sound strange, maybe a wikipedia guru could explain it.
I've checked with other subjects (non internet related), same thing.

I point out this peculiar article cause it's Tim Berners-Lee who got a "nofollow"

 

Last year I had a website that I referenced on wikipedia. I contributed some content from my site as reference. Later on somebody edited it completely but the reference link stayed on. My site had around 200 backlinks but only 5 showed up in google. One of them was from wikipedia.

Another advantage of having links on wikipedia is that many sites take content from wikipedia including references section. So if you place a link on wikipedia you get at least 4 other links from other sites. Examples of such sites include www.answers.com
Some of those sites carry high page rank even.

 

yeah... getting a link in wikipedia is good as wikipedia is a traffic-riched site..

 

is thery any way an retail site's link can stay on wiki.

 

I have been trying to do the same. i don't really think its possible. all links get removed almost immediately. I even tried to create a wikipedia topic on my company, but even that was deleted. they said in order to list your company, you needed to be highly discussed and in the news.

 

It can stay for a short but may become butt of jokes.

Last year somebody put his seo company site as a reference under search engine optimization. It became such a joke on some forums. LOL

Research and write a big topic and the links may stay.

Aditya

 

The nofollow bit is up for debate, if you search around you'll find the discussion page on there. The English Wikipedia could go to nofollow in the future.

I've had a link on there for 5 or 6 months now, but it's one somebody else added because they thought my site was a good resource for that article. That person had also added a lot of good content to the article at the same time. I think that's the way to do it, if you can: build a site that's worth them linking to. A retail site that doesn't provide any useful information isn't going to cut it.

 

i got push to wikipedia alot. so i think it is worth it.

 

You might also consider contributing material to other wiki sites, not just THE wiki site.

For example, go to Google and enter the following in the search field:

"your keywords" inurl:wiki

The results should list wikis that include entries relevant to "your keywords". Some of them may be small and more specific to your particular keywords and, hence, easier to get in.

Regards,


Duncan

 

linkin on wiki is soo tricky

 

I think they're important because Yahoo pulls them up in the first few pages when i do a link/domain: search.