Wikipedia Link Building question

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Hi all,

I'm currently trying to promote a client through Wikipedia and have finally gotten their page to stick, but it's an orphan (no links from other wikipedia pages). This is the first time I've ever dealt with serious wikipedia presence/link building and I'm stuck on how to build the page up. Does anyone have any suggestions of how to get inter-wikipedia links or know of anywhere I can go to get some consulting?
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  • Profile picture of the author 1nsan3
    There are Wiki pages (forums) dedicated to this.

    You need to join the forums and do your research there not here. Not many people here know how to edit wiki pages and can't give you advice so go there and ask them straight.

    The bods that edit wiki's are highly experienced web developers, writers and scholars and it's tougher than you think, so if you want to create a good page then you need to learn the ropes...

    So go and get your ass handed to you by some Wiki mods!
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  • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
    Originally Posted by harrisonengel View Post

    Hi all,

    I'm currently trying to promote a client through Wikipedia and have finally gotten their page to stick, but it's an orphan (no links from other wikipedia pages). This is the first time I've ever dealt with serious wikipedia presence/link building and I'm stuck on how to build the page up. Does anyone have any suggestions of how to get inter-wikipedia links or know of anywhere I can go to get some consulting?
    1. You are breaking Wikipedia's TOS by trying to promote a site and this is not a black hat forum for advice of that nature.
    2. You will be found out quickly, just not as fast as previously and your promotion will soon be deleted.
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    ...Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just set there.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Dig into Wikipedia, there's a few internal link types that will give you dozens of additional Wikipedia internal links with a single internal link. Wikipedia has different types of internal links. If you know your way around Wikipedia or can at least do your own research it shouldn't take long to figure out those links.

    A lot of those old Wikipedia pages have high PR so you once you get a list of internal pages you can sort by PR to find the authority pages, those pages get crawled/cached daily by Google. I'm not saying you'll end up with the PR being passed to your link (nofollow), I'm saying the citation will get found very fast by Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    Simply look for Wikipedia pages that are relevant to yours, edit them, and add a link to your Wikipedia page. Make sure your page is not promotional or else it will get deleted fast.
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  • Profile picture of the author mkgg
    Whats the point. Wikipedia links are nofollow and they don't help. I have a wiki link to one my site pages with the exact keyword/anchor i want to rank for and where it does place me ? at #9 or #10 position, that too because of the other link-building i have done.

    It shouldn't too hard to link to wikipedia page itself from wiki, just find an old abandon page and link to your wiki page from there. Due to how massive wiki is, you should have no trouble.

    @1nsan3: You apparently don't know how wikipedia works, i have tons of edits on wiki and as long as you can write a sentence properly without coming off as advertising your service then your edits will stick. I have advertised my sites in several articles by now and the benefit it gives my site ? Zilch.

    I am not a write or a scholar though i do have a bachelor degree and educated but i wouldn't consider myself a scholar or experienced writer and i can make my edits stick 99% of the time. Most of the people promoting their sites think nobody is going to read what they edit and just blatantly advertise, that is why their crap gets deleted but if you can contribute to the wiki and smartly add your site as a reference that edit is going to stick because the mods there can't read every damn edit that is made. If you do it real good, the mods will even revert new edits back to your one or add new information alongside yours.
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