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How much power in a Wikipedia backlink?

by Hanz
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I didn't realize my site was listed in Wikipedia until recently. I'm just wondering if it explains why my site stopped jumping around between #800+ to finally finding a stable spot in the top 50? What's the worth of a backlink from Wikipedia?
#backlink #power #wikipedia
  • Profile picture of the author BizmanJoe
    Excellent. Other excellent sources for back links are .org government institutions - Google ranks them very highly.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Carl Kelly
      Originally Posted by BizmanJoe View Post

      Excellent. Other excellent sources for back links are .org government institutions - Google ranks them very highly.
      Matt Cutts, Google engineer, says Wikipedia links DO NOT help a page rank higher in the SERPs...

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      • Profile picture of the author Steven Carl Kelly
        Originally Posted by Chris Kent View Post

        Let's face it, Wikipedia is often top of the rankings because it is so highly linked to and therefore regarded.

        Given this, and the fact that it is also user-moderated, any link that is there and survives more than a couple of days is bound to be highly regarded by Google.
        Do you have test data support this opinion?

        Originally Posted by Chris Kent View Post

        He's probably saying this to discourage people.
        My testing disagrees.

        Originally Posted by Chris Kent View Post

        a Wiki link is a good thing to have.
        Sure. But it won't boost you in the SERPs.
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  • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
    All links from wikipedia are nofollow, so no page rank is passed from wikipedia to your site. This means that google does not give any extra "credit" to links from wikipedia.

    I'am thinking it probably helped your site, but not as much if the link had not been nofolllow.
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    • Profile picture of the author tpw
      Originally Posted by ~kev~ View Post

      All links from wikipedia are nofollow, so no page rank is passed from wikipedia to your site. This means that google does not give any extra "credit" to links from wikipedia.

      I'am thinking it probably helped your site, but not as much if the link had not been nofolllow.

      Yes all Wikipedia links are nofollow, so you will not get any google juice as a result of that link. However, you may be getting traffic from that link, which is good. And the presence of your link in Wikipedia could perhaps influence other webmasters to include your link from their sites, so the viral value of a Wikipedia link may work out for you.

      I have two links in the wikipedia pointing to one of the articles in my blog. That particular page does get quite a bit of traffic and decent placement in google.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rock Solid
    Maybe what happened however was that when the wiki link went up it spawned a few other sites who were do-follow to find/pickup your site and link which would account for the jump.
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    • Profile picture of the author clorets01
      Wikipedia is just another source of traffic, but like other nofollow links, it wont improve your ranking.

      So I dont think it has anything to do with your site "stabilizing", Have you tried checking the backlinks to your site?
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Carl Kelly
    Originally Posted by Hanz View Post

    I didn't realize my site was listed in Wikipedia until recently. I'm just wondering if it explains why my site stopped jumping around between #800+ to finally finding a stable spot in the top 50?
    Oh, and to answer your question: no.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kael41
    I had a cellphone software site that had one link off a wikipedia entry. That was my highest ranking traffic producer, even beating out google. I loved that link
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  • Profile picture of the author orbero
    Wow I never really though about wiki before! So to get a link you just need to have a website with unique information or what?
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Carl Kelly
      Originally Posted by orbero View Post

      Wow I never really though about wiki before! So to get a link you just need to have a website with unique information or what?
      You just have to post a link to your site on a page. You can post it on just about any page you want. Remember, Wikipedia content is user contributed. That's why a Wikipedia link is nice, but due to the fact that it's nofollow it doesn't boost your pages in the SERPs.

      So post away! Just don't count on it sticking. It could be removed seconds after you post it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Natlex
    I have a few wiki links, I'm not sure how much it helps but for one of my websites one of my links is very relevant and I get about 10-20 visitors coming from it a day so that's pretty neat.

    A lot of my wiki links elsewhere get constantly removed though, very odd.
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  • Profile picture of the author David Hooper
    It may not help, but it doesn't hurt.
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  • Profile picture of the author BargainBookMole
    yes, my brief experience is it better be a legit reference or they'll yank it wicked fast--as in immediately. They police external links
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    Matt Cutts, Google engineer, says Wikipedia links DO NOT help a page rank higher in the SERPs...
    I agree with that Matt Cutts guy, and yes, I currently have links to some of my sites on wikipedia.

    Traffic isn't bad but for SEO I wouldn't get too excited over it.
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  • Profile picture of the author faceblogger
    Wickipedia links are no-follow - so useless for ranking!
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  • Profile picture of the author EFt
    You need to respect Wiki and not promote your own website to get traffic, place a link on Wiki if you think it really will help people to learn more about that subject. Anything else is spamming and destroying a great free online resource and it won't survive anyway as a mod will clean it up and contact you.
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  • Profile picture of the author JHC81
    Wilkipedia has a PR of 8 if I am not mistaken, but just like everyone here says it's a nofollow link.
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    The information in here is a bit skewed...

    In general Wikipedia is a no follow link, but that does not mean all their links are no follow. Listen to Matt carefully... You just have to do some research to find where the links are follow, and how to get them.

    That I won't tell you. I've seen SERPs move directly due to wikipedia so I do have results to back up my statement
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  • Profile picture of the author LetsGoViral
    Well, it's not that hard to get Wikipedia backlinks to be honest. They give a little boost in visitors and that's about it. They get taken down eventually if they see you are using the site only for profit.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheProgrammer
    These backlinks are highly searched by many webmasters, around the world, because it is having more authority and power than other regular backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author TopBackBuilder
    It's crazy how many services offer wikipedia links and it turns out that they're nofollow, crazy.
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
      It's a user content controlled site so I'd expect nothing less.

      Having relevant content stick is another matter too...

      There are lots of people who regard themselves too highly and run promotions of themselves all over wiki only for content to be deleted.


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  • Profile picture of the author LinkClub
    It is difficult to get a link on Wikipedia.If you create your own link on a wiki they can ban you for spamming. If you are going to think about putting your link you had better make sure that your site is very very relevant to the content page you are being linked from.
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  • Profile picture of the author abeng
    Don't have high expectation for nofollow link.. That's give little contribution but better than never..
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  • Profile picture of the author samjaynz
    As the link is no follow it's not going to be super in terms of link juice.

    HOWEVER, with a Wikipedia link in the right place/context you can get some very healthy referral traffic. And that - at least to me - is worth a lot.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    The thread is 4 years old & OP is still stuck at #50, lol.
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  • Profile picture of the author Datangle
    Wikipedia is the popular site among all the sites in the world. If your site got placed in Wiki then it is more powerful backlink than any other site which has your link as back link. Also lot of visits might come from wiki as well.
    Back link in a powerful high PR site is always be more powerful.
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  • Profile picture of the author NSA
    I fully agree.

    I am very pleased with my wikipedia.org backlinks, they give my sites tremendous authority and trust.

    I saw real benefits from all sticky wikipedia links, my competitors without one seem to have a hard time, trying to compete
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Sorry everyone. The answer we were looking for was 4.

    4 was the correct answer.

    Thanks for playing.
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