Any suggestions on how to get a backlink on Wikipedia? I have been adding articles with good legal content and resources to wikipedia, but they are always removed.
Get articles about the business or site published in newspapers and magazines. Wikipedia uses such articles as both sources and evidence of notability. You're not allowed to create an article about yourself, but nobody else can show the business is notable enough to include in Wikipedia without published material.
You have to met some of these criteria. 1. Big and well known company around the globe - Like Microsoft, CNN, Yahoo. 2. If your site is not met with #1, then your must be a charity non-profit organization or knowledge based for peoples and not a commercial oriented website. This is the main reasons why most of websites has been removed 3. If your site is not met with #1 plus your site is commercial oriented and still want a backlinks from Wikipedia. You have to make something big and spread by peoples to peoples. Your site or your company has to be well known enough. The good example are "Joomla" and "Wordpress" 4. If your site is absolute encyclopedia type, then your site has a high chance to be included in Wikipedia.
Sxperm, you pretty much nailed it. The only time I have seen Wikipedia add any "individual" articles is of people that in some ways or others have had a renown career. And in order for them to keep the Bio there, others have to contribute to it. For example I worked for many years in the media and know of quite a few co-workers that are in wikipedia. I just think they dislike vendors, unless of course you have done something big or have made some sort of history.
then Sxperm, its a very hard process. Simple webmasters who provide genuine and quality information also cant get links there. Its a pretty hard process....... I doubt, if i can every fulfill the above criteria.
Wikipedia is worlds largest valuable information site. So they will allow only valuable information not all business and commercial site's information.
Thats right. Its not for commercial site information and personal use. I think that why its very difficult to have a link there. Its only for information and teaching people.
There actually are a number of rather small companies scattered around Wikipedia, although their being there is precarious due to the WP:NOTABILITY requirement. The key to survival in Wikipedia is to get published in newspapers and magazines, as those articles become sources and evidence of notability. For example, if you look for a coffee shop, bakery, or pastry shop in Wikipedia you can find a few small places.
One more small thing - I've noticed people being more able to squeeze their link into the footnotes/citations part of a Wikipedia page, than the "external links" section, which is more like the holy grail.
So if you have been featured in the press, is it possible to add the article to Wikipedia? I assume no links are possible even if the press artical includes reference to your website?
You can't copy the news article into Wikipedia. If facts in the article are in (or added to) an article in Wikipedia, the news article can be identified as a source for those facts. Often a link to the news article is part of the footnote for the source. A link to a company's home web page is usually only in a Wikipedia page about the company. Showing that a company is notable enough to have a page in Wikipedia often requires several news articles which provide enough facts about the company. Go in Wikipedia and in the search box try WP:NOTABILITY to see an explanation of the notability requirements for a Wikipedia page.
Hello all, Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the Wikipedia links are NOFOLLOW, so I wouldn't bother too much about it. For example, on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 <a href="http://www.techpluto.com/web-20-services/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Core Characteristics of Web 2.0 Services"</a><span class="printonly"> Code (markup):
Wiki is full of people with no life who just moderate anything and everything...just another example of useless abuse by individuals online. Try added a USEFUL link and they still remove it if they don't agree (personal, subjective).
Doesn't matter. It's an authority site - who cares about page rank. If you're on a decent enough page, it has the ability to bring in more traffic than a search engine. Worrying about nofollow makes no sense, a backlink is a backlink.
Right, markn26. A nofollow link might not affect Pagerank, but there are actual humans using the Internet who click on links.