Wikipedia: A Source Of Traffic

[peter_d]

Even though it's no-follow (contray to what that article says, I haven't seen Wikipedia pass PR from no-followed links), Wikipedia can be a great traffic resource. Just be super-relevant.

A basic intro:

http://tinyurl.com/yoqldn

There are tools and systems out there which can be used to “spam” wikipedia. This is not what makes the world go around. I am talking only of adding serious links to serious Wikipedia pages. Not fluff links that help nobody.

[frobber]

yes .. often wikipedia ranks very high in the SE.

You can edit the external links section of each article and put up a link to your website if it's not commercial.

It's also possible to add commercial links there but they normally getting deleted through editors (I took my 10 retries to get my commercial website listed)

[WebGeek182]

Originally Posted by peter_d

Even though it's no-follow (contray to what that article says, I haven't seen Wikipedia pass PR from no-followed links), Wikipedia can be a great traffic resource. Just be super-relevant.

I agree, Peter. Wikipedia can be a great source of traffic, and even if you don't get any link juice directly, chances are some of the visitors coming from there, will link to you, so indirectly, it can be a source of link juice.

frobber,
Regarding commercial links....If you're going to try to get a link in a Wikipedia article, and have it not get deleted, it needs to offer something of value to the readers of the article. If it does offer something of great value, then commercial or not, it has a good chance of surviving the editors.

[Owen]

It's all about context. If your link adds value to the article it's posted on, then the chances are, it will remain there. If it's out of context, then don't even bother trying.

Just my 2p

[harmu.com]

yes wiki is a good source of contextual traffic, but then it still is spamming! the social bookmarking sites works lot better than wiki!

[jo_cstd]

Originally Posted by frobber

yes .. often wikipedia ranks very high in the SE.

You can edit the external links section of each article and put up a link to your website if it's not commercial.

It's also possible to add commercial links there but they normally getting deleted through editors (I took my 10 retries to get my commercial website listed)

Wikipedia being an essential source of information these days receives tens of millions of visitors a day, probably making it one of the best possible sources of traffic in the web.. But should we really be spamming it with irrelevant links?

[jo_cstd]

douple post. sorry. lol.

[coolguy27]

wIKIPEDIA and Answers.com are the two sources for almost all informations regarding keywords... I really love these two sites... Great Sites...

[EWSitesCom]

How do you get a link submitted to wikipedia? I have a soccer news site and they wont accept me. Any Ideas? What is the trick?

[Pamil Visions]

Originally Posted by EWSitesCom

How do you get a link submitted to wikipedia? I have a soccer news site and they wont accept me. Any Ideas? What is the trick?

There's no trick I suppose. Write an article which could be seen as a "resource" and the Wikipedia moderators are going to accept it. It makes no sense to try to submit the whole site. Make sure that your article is unique and adds value to the information submitted on the wikipedia page where you want to display your link.

[joe-d]

Definitely true. People are still trying to spam wikipedia because they know that it receives a lot of highly targeted visitors and it will pass some of these visitors to them.