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How to get web traffic with Wikipedia?

by AkosBlog
14 replies
Hi all,

I was just wondering that Wikipedia.org could be a great traffic source.
Any suggestions? Any thoughts? Leave a reply!
Thanks in advance.

Have a nice day.
Akos
#traffic #web #wikipedia
  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Good luck with that.

    But to pull it off, you will need someone on the inside.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    I was just wondering that Wikipedia.org could be a great traffic source.
    No, it can NOT.
    (hülye ötlet)
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    • Profile picture of the author AkosBlog
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      No, it can NOT.
      (hülye ötlet)
      I think it can get you traffic, if you insert a proper,highly related link to one of your pages.
      (Szerintem tud, ha egy normális linket írsz a "referral links" helyre.)
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  • Profile picture of the author KristofferIM
    It can if you have an authority site. Not if you have a sniper site or anything like that.

    If you do have an authority site, try to find articles on Wikipeida that are related to your site topic and add a relevant link to your site in the "External Links" section.

    Good luck.
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    • Profile picture of the author AkosBlog
      Originally Posted by KristofferIM View Post

      It can if you have an authority site. Not if you have a sniper site or anything like that.

      If you do have an authority site, try to find articles on Wikipeida that are related to your site topic and add a relevant link to your site in the "External Links" section.

      Good luck.
      Thanks for the reply. Moderation will check your link and they will only let relevant links to appear.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marketing Cheetah
    Pretty hard. You might be lucky to get your article in it and get a backlink. Might want to consider alternatives.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    I used to be a contributor to wikipedia and I can tell you: all the editors/moderators can smell any self-promotional link from miles... and they delete them mercilessly even from the External Links section.
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    • Profile picture of the author tpw
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      I used to be a contributor to wikipedia and I can tell you: all the editors/moderators can smell any self-promotional link from miles... and they delete them mercilessly even from the External Links section.

      Someone, not me or anyone under my control, added a link to one of my pages from two different wikipedia pages.

      Both are PR7 pages, and both are high-traffic pages, and my page is listed as an recommended link.

      And yet I barely get 15 visitors a month from the wikipedia.

      So even if someone could get in, it is doubtful in my mind that it will generate a lot of traffic.
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      • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
        Originally Posted by tpw View Post

        So even if someone could get in, it is doubtful in my mind that it will generate a lot of traffic.
        Yes, that's the other thing: if the links are on a wiki-page that is rarely visited/searched... not much traffic from there.
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  • Profile picture of the author theemperor
    You would have to be very subtle.

    If you had a true authority site in your niche which was highly respected, and you wrote a non-salesy article based on genuine research, you could use it as a source.

    You would get people to your site that way, but you shouldn't be selling them anything on the page because it's a wiki source not a sales page.

    But if you can get a site to that level of authority I think you wouldn't be concerned with wikipedia marketing at all anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author asfandmudassir
    It will just index your links but these links will not help you in Page Rank. Which is clearly written in their rules.
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  • Profile picture of the author masterjani
    Once you have some great unique content and decent traffic then you can create wikipedia,But it is difficult for new sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author Cosmit
      I have many links pointing to my sites from Wikipedia. On a certain site, Wikipedia is responsible for 3.13% of my traffic.

      Is it worth it? Well, not so much but you can do it for a bit of extra traffic. Write a decent article on your site. Add something valuable to the Wikipedia page and link as resource.

      I haven't had anyone remove my links. They're still intact to this day.
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