Backlinks from wikipedia

zebrahat said:
It's amazing how ranking on G so dominates IM strategies that it can "devalue" a link coming from one of the top ten domains on the entire web. If a site that has 3.9 billion traffic PER MONTH can be devalued, how valid is the the whole "authority" link racket, anyway?

Instead of relying on it for SEO, it would be better to treat Wikipedia like a top-rated editorial link, for direct click-through, high direct traffic purposes. That would mean the approach is to have an entire article written and posted on Wiki (not just slip a link onto an existing entry), that points to a matching info-rich page on one's own site.

I.e., go about it the same way one would get an editorially compliant article written on Forbes, that links to a similar or mirror article on your website. Writing a carefully selected 'stub' that relates to your niche site's content would probably do the job. Outcome, you end up with a full article on Wiki that is designed to lead to link-through traffic to your site, not just sneaky link.
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Well, just the way Google devalued some pretty big PR agencies like PRlog in the past. Just the way how they forced Huffpost to change their blog links to nofollow (This is a speculation, but I am pretty sure they played they role.)

When there are multiple teams dedicated to fight SEO, it's not really that hard to stop ruining fun for everyone. And they are leaking money, so the less people believe in SEO, the better for them. Whatever the means. Plus, they can devalue just the links pointing out from the site, not necessarilly its position in Serps. That's a few lines of code and with the amount of traffic the Wikipedia received as you said, well, I think that with their resources, they could have dedicated a team to it for a couple of days. :)
 
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A wikipedia link is a good link regardless of whether its do follow or not. (Ignore all the 'its nofollow' bollox) If you can get it for a price your happy to pay then get it.
 
I would like to buy wikipedia links as well, no one in the marketplace is selling them at the moment tho..
 
I remember a method a while back was building a crap ton of wikilinks, shortening them and throwing spam at em. Not really sure what impact it may have had considering the little value gained from the nofollow link.
 
I couldn't agree more with zebrahat. It might be a no follow link but at the end of the day it can bring you some direct traffic, diversify your link profile and create more awareness for your brand
 
Find dead wiki links and replace them with yours. I do that for every site.
 
I've started to add link to the section references, but they are deleted.
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Wouldn't it be a smart move, to check for articles, without any, few or bad pictures. Upload a picture on your site and wikicommons afterwards, with your site as source and then put it in the wiki article ?
 
JuliaRushmore said:
can you tell me bit more about it. please text me [email protected]
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That gets deleted only after a while. You need to maintain them :) you'll see a link from them but after 10-12 days, its gone or screwed.
Many guys on fiverr does that, but if you check the same after couple of weeks, your stuff won't be there.

That's why Contributor account/moderator accounts plays a vital role.
 
Go with wikipedia dead link find dead links via using footprint then try to build your hyperlink.
 
Nut-Nights said:
buy a expired domain with wikipedia link and redirect it your domain.
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roki4ka said:
Find dead wiki links and replace them with yours. I do that for every site.
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Both are good ways to do it. I have slight issues with changing an expired link as I have had lots of them changed after the fact by another editor but it can work fine if the content is relevant.

Finding expired domains with links from Wikipedia is a piece of piss and I can get a list of hundreds within the hour. If left running you can literally find thousands of domains with links from Wikipedia (and many other authority sites) without any troubles.
 
Definitely you can buy backlinks from Wikipedia. Its hard to get link on your own. So try some service providers from Marketplace. Get some sample links first and then try with them. Good luck.
 
As far as I know - wikipedia is nofollow, so what for are the link from it?
 
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