Wikipedia links

Not usually.

Anyone can set up an account and post materials to the Wikipedia, but the Wiki editors are very used to marketers trying to game the system.

New editors are watched like a hawk, and if anything hints of self-promotion, the link and the editor will be nuked within the Wikipedia system.

I got my Wikipedia account nuked for criticizing their editorial process publicly.

I have tried many techniques but getting a link from Wikipedia is very tough.

The first ever link I tried to place on Wikipedia back to my site has stuck ever since. I'm not sure what I did right but it's for a very popular keyword and I had no issues.

I created some relevant content on my blog, something that was relevant and important to the topic but had not yet been mentioned. I then added a little section to the Wikipedia page outlining this information and linked to my site from the footer of that page as the resource for that information.

I am yet to try again but that's what worked for me first time around.

I've gotten a few Wiki links before but they disappeared after sticking for a short period of time, wasn't worth the effort in the long run.

Wiki is one of those sites where you can't simply get a link from.

Too much effort and very little result. If your link is a perfect match for the article (which is normally not the case), then you might stand a chance.

I also dont know how to get wiki links.. still i am trying to get..

I've got at least 50+ Wikipedia links that have been active since at least Jan. 2011 (1.5 years).

I'm not posting what I did to make it work because people will spam it until it gets locked down, there's a back door to getting links to stick on Wikipedia, do your own testing.

I can't remember where I got this "advice" from but it was something like this:

Write a product review.
Find the most relevant article to that product on the Wiki.
Edit the external links and throw yours somewhere in the middle.

Since I was already writing some reviews on my site, I decided to give this a shot after all, what could I lose?

And yeah, never happened.

I did edit the document and it was all good, came back a couple of hours later, link was gone.

I thought it was interesting, who the heck is going to be monitoring thousands and thousands of articles all day long and being constantly updated?

(Obiously editing particular places on these articles may raise red flags and admins may come to check it out, that would be particularly easy with their system)

So anyway, I decided to give this a few more hours and ended up doing the same thing (editing the links) in the night.

Woke up next morning, checked the article and BOOM link gone again.

This just triggered my inner curiosity and decided to wait a few days since whoever (or whatever) was editing the article back to its prior state, was logically going to be more alerted.

So a few days later, I went to edit the article again, checked after a few hours, link gone again so I just stopped.

Whoever says it's getting easy traffic from the Wiki by editing the links, I hardly doubt it but then again, maybe I was doing something wrong.

Note: I'm not interested in getting any links from them, this was just an experiment.

Wiki administrators are watching new uses, I would suggest using and old account with some contributions under its belt. That way the link seems more legit than from a newly created account.

it is really tough to get backlinks from wikipedia
i tried too many times but no results.