Post a wikipedia article on our hotel

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Our family hotel is the oldest hotel of a popular holiday destination in Germany, I'm using the spare time through the pandemic to improve our online presence (redesigning our website, yt videos, Instagram etc.)
As our building is one of the main photo motives of the town and historically important there's quite some content regarding our hotel on the Wikipedia site of our town and I was thinking about creating a separate Wikipedia page just for our hotel and then link to our site a few times. I could obviously link to the home page but also our history page or to our gallery.
However, I'm a bit worried that the Wikipedia site will outrank our own website when people search for our brand name or hide our gmb at the right side of the search results.
Preferably I'd like the Wikipedia site to rank second or third after our website but I can obviously not control that.

What's your opinion on it? Good idea to create an article or not?
 
Creating an article/page on Wikipedia will boost your brand awareness, and even if in some case it does outranks your website it still won't hurt you because if the people are interested in the booking they'll just proceed to your site
 
Our family hotel is the oldest hotel of a popular holiday destination in Germany, I'm using the spare time through the pandemic to improve our online presence (redesigning our website, yt videos, Instagram etc.)
As our building is one of the main photo motives of the town and historically important there's quite some content regarding our hotel on the Wikipedia site of our town and I was thinking about creating a separate Wikipedia page just for our hotel and then link to our site a few times. I could obviously link to the home page but also our history page or to our gallery.
However, I'm a bit worried that the Wikipedia site will outrank our own website when people search for our brand name or hide our gmb at the right side of the search results.
Preferably I'd like the Wikipedia site to rank second or third after our website but I can obviously not control that.

What's your opinion on it? Good idea to create an article or not?

If you are concerned about the rankings yet want a Wikipedia link to your Hotel's site you could edit the Wiki page in place and link to your Hotel's site.
 
I don't see why the Wiki page being the first one would be an issue. They'll still book a room regardless.
 
Our family hotel is the oldest hotel of a popular holiday destination in Germany, I'm using the spare time through the pandemic to improve our online presence (redesigning our website, yt videos, Instagram etc.)
As our building is one of the main photo motives of the town and historically important there's quite some content regarding our hotel on the Wikipedia site of our town and I was thinking about creating a separate Wikipedia page just for our hotel and then link to our site a few times. I could obviously link to the home page but also our history page or to our gallery.
However, I'm a bit worried that the Wikipedia site will outrank our own website when people search for our brand name or hide our gmb at the right side of the search results.
Preferably I'd like the Wikipedia site to rank second or third after our website but I can obviously not control that.

What's your opinion on it? Good idea to create an article or not?

have you seen a case where a wikipedia page outranks a brand when people search for the brand name? I dont think I have ever seen this

if you are able to create a wikipedia page and have it not get deleted, it will be a major benefit in every aspect that you can think of.
 
You should go for it, it will create good image of your hotel.
 
I doubt Google will rank wikipedia above GMB.

Moreover create fb, insta, twitter profiles. You have high chances of getting verified profile.
 
Thank you, everyone, I'll try and create one and see what happens.
@MisterXYZ Would you mind elaborating why there's a high chance of getting verified profiles? I'm not familiar with how to get a profile verified, I always thought that mainly goes with the number of followers?
 
If wikipedia outrank your site, obvious it will build your brand name and guest will book for your hotel..
 
  1. Be specific in your targets.
  2. Be specific in the page titles and blog headlines.
  3. Be specific in your blog focus.
  4. Be specific in your story telling.
  5. Be specific in your research.
 
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