Agree about the waste of time for direct SEO benefits however depending on how long it stays up for you can gain dofollow benefits from people who scrape those pages.
there is no benefit from wikipedia. I got some links on some article. If someone reads article and looks for websites yeah it will be but i never do it do u?
Yeah I agree on this, if wikipedia finds this, your link will be removed on the reference section (I've read this somewhere in the wiki, just forgot the specific page)..
Do not bother with Wikipedia. You will waste a lot of time creating it and the page will instantly be deleted for being promotional. Unless you have a history like being the first guy to own a car in portland, then your Wikipedia page will be flagged as pointless within 24 hours.
I guess I am living an early man era then! I always maintained that we should be working to get a high PR... Well, I guess I'll have to think about changing that perception. Thanks.
Chances are, unless you are a professional, have a doctors degree or have some kind of published scientific paper - your article will be rejected and the link to your site will be deleted. Wikipedia is very, very picky about the types of articles that it publishes about "sites" and people.
Wikipedia has a lot of traffic and may give you traffic too, I've got links on wikipedia they nofollow but give me traffic and also some other websites use wikipedia links into their websites, FREE backlinks!!!!
Its probably better if you find a topic that is related to your site, add some useful info on the page, and add a link to a page on your site that offers some good, free, relevant info. Your link is far more likely to stick.
I once owned a website that got most of my traffic from a single link on wikipedia !! So yes it makes a big difference.
I have a link in wikipedia from an article, and I receive around 75 visits a month from it. Not a lot, but everything helps.
I've found that even though wikipedia links are nofollowed, there is some anchor text value assigned. We've tested this with unique anchors we've just used for wikipedia and no other sites. totally unique ones. You can also build a small niche website that discusses the specific topic, get it listed there, and then use it as a feeder site to our main domain(s). Sometimes the traffic is worth it in itself.
thanks for all the advice. My only goal was for a backlink not traffic even though traffic wouldnt hurt. thanks again
it happens with my websites every time when i add a link to wikipedia even if its not a commercial one they delete the link.
If you're having links deleted from Wikipedia, it's probably because they didn't bring anything to the party. The writers at Wiki are not going to let people come in and just drop links, if you are writing an article for them, just make sure that it isn't a promotion, talk about the subject that your site is about, then make a link at the bottom with your site listed as a resource. I think you'll have a better chance using that approach.