mrgreengreen
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I was wondering If the links that comes from wikipedia to your website has any good influence on your ranking, and if so does get better with multiple links from multiple articles on wikipedia?
Wikipedia backlinks effects
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mrgreengreen
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so does it mean that one link from wikipedia could have the same effect as having multiple links from there?
sabhan
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No, one link won't move the needle. You need to build backlinks from other websites also.
1 backlink from Wikipedia to a single page with low competiton can help that specific page to rank but can't help to improve ranking of website as a whole.
I would not build more than 5 backlinks from Wikipedia to whole of my website. When you start to push too much with a particular type of backlinks only, it's better to calm down and think logically.
Starblazer
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Wikipedia links help you to quickly gain trust and authority. For example, if you get backlinks from Wikipedia pages for SEO, keyword research, content marketing, blogging, backlinks etc., then Google will identify you as an authority in SEO.
fb3003
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it does help
i would not try to get more than 1 link, because the chance of the admins finding out and deleting your link from all wikipedia posts grows with each link you add. last thing you want to happen is to have your site blacklisted and never be able to get a legitimated wikipedia link in future.
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Yes, the more, the better. They are one of the best linking sources.
mrgreengreen
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I can see what you mean, as the more natural the backlink is the better chances it has.
now that everyone is saying wikipedia does give you authority I think the biggest question that everyone is probably asking and I doubt anyone on this forum have the right answer to it is can we put a measurement to the amount of authorty it gives. so you could know what backlink is worth it and what is not.
well I don't think you will get banned if you have more than one link from wikipedia if the link appears naturally on the post.
thanks for your answer, but when you say one of the best you mean it equal to .edu or .gov or same as youtube maybe better or slightly better than blogger
fb3003
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may I suggest for you to educate yourself on how wikipedia works and the hidden truth behind Wikipedia admins
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Almost identical to .gov and .edu regardless if they are nofollow. Don't be folled by that rel tag
Grand Next
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yes wikipedia is finest platform to boost your website ranking. I totally agree with you that we can't only depend on it. We have to get quality backlinks from our niche related authority sites for better ranking
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In general that should be only one of many sources for the link building. I do not recommend to be very concentrated on that as source.
joecal
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so, you're saying that Google treats a backlink with 'rel=nofollow' from Wikipedia in the same way as a 'do follow' backlink? If this is what you mean, did you run any experiments? any proof?
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@t0mmy did a post on this.
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/do-follow-vs-no-follow-whats-really-up.978902/
Alternatively you can try for yourself and report back. All my sites have them...
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Wikipedia links are not just random "nofollow" links: they are part of the core of Google's graph and the authoritativeness is 100%. Technically, they are the perfect DR 100.
And this is why these links are the ones sold the highest price with the highest risk of being lost at some early point.
Certain links from certain Wikipedia pages are almost priceless. They are the death star of SEO.
Unless I had to choose between a GOV/EDU link or Wikipedia link, unless there was a high authority Gov/EDU 60+ DR and 80+ OPR I would always go with Wikpedia hands down
alohamrhand
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I got a wikipedia backlinks and got a huge boost in rank for about a day. The traffic was phenomenal from Wikipedia itself, but google dropped to nothing while the wiki traffic continued to roll in.
PromoNavi
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are there any changes after a while?
alohamrhand
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It's been different depending on which site I've tried this with. Usually a little rank boost that lasts but the traffic fluctuates based on if the topic is trending or not.