[Answered] Will a backlink from Wikipedia make a difference in 2022?

4ry4n · Feb 17, 2022

Hello BHW community, I hope you all are doing great.

I usually ask questions here, but for a change I wanted to report on a little experiment I did.

I am certain that most of you already know that even a no foll0w backlink from Wikipedia is worth a lot, but I was able to monitor what exactly happens once you place the link of a certain page on Wikipedia.
At the time of this experiment the DR of the site was at 15.

1- A blog post about an "apple product update" was placed on our domain, as usual it did not experience any significant traffic.

Date of Publishing: 18th Jan 22

Details:

Word count: less than 400

Images: 1

Page load time: +6 sec

2- Over the next week, it has only ranked on serp two or three days for 2 Keyword at most which created no clicks.
Ranking between 2nd and 9th.

3- On 24th of January this page was linked to a relevant Wiki page.

4- Now, a month later, the Page ranks for 10 Keywords, with 40+ weekly clicks (peak was 80 per week) and ranking between 1st and 3rd for all those Keywords. It has outranked pages with twice as much DR and a lot more traffic.

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Conclusion:

You can rank a page easily with a Wiki backlink, even if you are having low quality content, low Authority and slow page speed.

I hope that this information would be useful to you all.

Regards,

tazarbm · Feb 17, 2022

wow, great insight! And congrats on the results

4ry4n · Feb 17, 2022

tazarbm said:
wow, great insight! And congrats on the results

Thanks man, your help has solved countless issues for me.

seomaster5 · Feb 17, 2022

Now the question is how to get wikipedia link ? Is it easy to get ?

roydan · Feb 17, 2022

seomaster5 said:
Now the question is how to get wikipedia link ? Is it easy to get ?

You can either do some leg work or buy them from the marketplace.

seomaster5 · Feb 17, 2022

RoyDanino said:
You can either do some leg work or buy them from the marketplace.

I have no experience regarding this so I will choose to buy only when I really need.

tazarbm · Feb 17, 2022

4ry4n said:
Thanks man, your help has solved countless issues for me.

I think you are being too kind, but I'd love to have helped

verwest · Feb 17, 2022

Can you tell me how to do this?

Sparked Nut · Feb 17, 2022

How did you get the Wikipedia link?

MisterF · Feb 17, 2022

Downside with Wiki links is they are easy to get removed.

Anyone with editor access can even switch out anchors etc.

There are people selling these for $60-99 and offering 30 or 50 days replacement warranty and they're basically reselling $10 services.

4ry4n · Feb 17, 2022

seomaster5 said:
Now the question is how to get wikipedia link ? Is it easy to get ?

verwest said:
Can you tell me how to do this?

Sparked Nut said:
How did you get the Wikipedia link?

I used my home dynamic IP, I made a fresh account and edited a page that is not in English nor is it visited much.
Further more consider linking it to a page which is exactly about the topic. So if an Admin sees it, they would most probably approve of it since it is actually a relative citation.
I nearly forgot, so when you made your Wiki profile, you find the article go to a relevant part edit it and make a citation and add your link as a source, I am sure you can find tutorial online.

MisterF said:
There are people selling these for $60-99 and offering 30 or 50 days replacement warranty and they're basically reselling $10 services.

Easy money. This was an easy backlink to make and now is around 20 days old, I will update here if it is gone.
I wonder if I should keep making more of these with other emails and accounts.

HenryObi · Feb 17, 2022

4ry4n said:
You can rank a page easily with a Wiki backlink, even if you are having low quality content, low Authority and slow page speed

This isn't entirely accurate, ranking a webpage 'easily' with Wikipedia is only fantasy in my opinion. I have wiki links to different pages, pages I would consider good quality but they're not ranking the way you claim. The ones who rank have better backlinks alongside the ones from Wikipedia.

The nice thing about Wikipedia links is they sometimes attract other backlinks that could also be of help, while most of them are usually wiki links that were automatically created, a few are not.

If you're getting Wikipedia links for very cheap price or free it's 'worth' but if you're paying high, you might as well look elsewhere.

Royal96 · Feb 17, 2022

Interesting experiment, thanks for sharing!

So, was the Wikipedia backlink in your case do follow or no follow?

Turbo B. · Feb 17, 2022

Wiki backlinks are nofollow.

4ry4n · Feb 17, 2022

HenryObi said:
This isn't entirely accurate, ranking a webpage 'easily' with Wikipedia is only fantasy in my opinion. I have wiki links to different pages, pages I would consider good quality but they're not ranking the way you claim. The ones who rank have better backlinks alongside the ones from Wikipedia.

Interesting, anyway the page that I have tested this on has no other backlinks, maybe just been share once or twice on social media but that is it, there are no other possible contributors.

Royal96 said:
Interesting experiment, thanks for sharing!

So, was the Wikipedia backlink in your case do follow or no follow?

I think all Wikipedia backlinks are no follow

Links Indexing · Feb 17, 2022

Wikipedia is high authority site & links from high authority website always helps to rank better no matter links are nofollow or ********.

When you get backlink from Wikipedia page you're not getting only link from that many other wikis & website embed wiki pages as it is and update regularly so you also backlink from those websites.

Gefrekssiy · Feb 17, 2022

4ry4n said:
Interesting, anyway the page that I have tested this on has no other backlinks, maybe just been share once or twice on social media but that is it, there are no other possible contributors.

I think all Wikipedia backlinks are no follow

Basically the expected result

Rufin jazz · Feb 17, 2022

4ry4n said:
Interesting, anyway the page that I have tested this on has no other backlinks, maybe just been share once or twice on social media but that is it, there are no other possible contributors.

I think all Wikipedia backlinks are no follow

Thank you for inputs, really helpful!

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