I'm wondering if posting relevant links in relevant Wikipedia.org articles will affect SE placement. For example, I wrote a definitive clone engine of the SNES classic Tetris Attack for the PC. I realised today that I should post it on wikipedia's Tetris Attack article under the other PC Tetris Attack clones. Suppose nobody ever linked to my game. Would I still see SE results? Thanks everyone! Brandon something good is going to happen to me today... something good is going to happen to me today...!
From my experience links on wiki can have a fairly large affect on SERPs and also get you a fairly large amount of raffic too. Choose anchor text carefully. Good luck Notting
Even some of my sites are present in wikipedia (few are added by me), I am yet to see any significant improvement in ranking.
Wow thanks And extra thanks to the mod(s) who moved my posts to the best forum for me, that's very nice of you...! My apologies and I will try to find my way around better
It will depend on: ranking of the article how many links are on the page how long the link has been there anchor text. I have one site which almost entirely depends on wiki at the moment!!
Yes wikipedia is a great source of traffic, but it is NOT a site to spam. Post your links there only when your site is very relative and has some cool information regarding to the topic of the article that you post to.
Yeah, I believe Wiki is a really good source for traffic too. And admittedly, be aware of spamming there.
I've seen great SEO boosts from Wikipedia, and great traffic too. Make sure your link is relevant and helpful. Wikipedia, as we love to say, is NOT a link directory. If you have an established link on Wikipedia, you will see great things.
Great! A useful resource such as Wikipedia, is going to get spammed by webmasters - link farm here we come!
Very true. I first tried this a couple months ago and it worked, my link is still up and its one of my top 5 referrers. But ANY changes you make i.e. adding external links, the admins see it immediately and usually delete them unless it is VERY relevant to the article. I have tried a couple other external links since then but with little success. Bottom line, if you're spamming, it will get removed. It has to be MORE than relevant for it stay up.