backlink question - wikipedia

miccky86

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• Sep 28, 2015

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Just a quick question, is there any reason why you cant just go and edit a wikipedia page that is relevant to your niche and post a link to your site in the references section?

 

Peter Ngo

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• Sep 28, 2015

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You can, but it is not as easy as you think. They have quite a strict moderating system, which makes links placement quite tough.

 

rajanant

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• Sep 29, 2015

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Moderators will leave your link on wikipedia only if it's very important for community. Otherwise it will be removed.
By the way all wiki links are nofollow, so no pagerank will pass. But they can bring some traffic.

 

clevelandslim

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• Sep 29, 2015

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Wikipedia generate very relevant traffic to the website. If you spam Wiki with links,it will hurt you badly. Be organic and add links in a smart manner.

 

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sashilover

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• Sep 29, 2015

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That's NOFollow link which is no SEO value at all.

 

classybabe

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• Sep 29, 2015

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Google doesn't give a crap about wikipedia references. They don't even bring traffic at all

 

miccky86

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• Sep 29, 2015
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thanks for the replies guys, got the info i needed so i will ignore wikipedia.