Internet Marketing Tycoon

**asapcorp** · 01-31-2007, 07:12 PM

I have few sites that covers different subjects each.

I'd like to submit them to wikipedia, in the external links section, at the bottom of their articles...

All my pages have real content on them.

Would it be good to add my links to wikipedia, or a total waste of time? Would people really click on my links, in wikipedia's articles?

Thanks in advance!

**stOx** · 02-03-2007, 01:39 PM

They may click them, They may not. No harm in trying.

**vangogh** · 02-03-2007, 02:06 PM

I think it's generally frowned up though to add links to your own sites on Wikipedia. Good chance one of the editors will just remove it, but you never know.

**asapcorp** · 02-03-2007, 06:24 PM

Yes. I added my site previously but it was removed now by somebody.

**roy77** · 02-03-2007, 06:25 PM

yea i did try for one of my sites, they called it "spamming" and threaten to put my site on the "blacklist"

**vangogh** · 02-04-2007, 05:45 PM

You'd do better to link to sites from the WikiPedia that link to you. So say if I had a page with a link to one of your pages you might link to my page and help build it's authority. Some of that would fall to you.

My guess is this won't last long if it still does though since the idea's been out there for awhile.

**digitalracks** · 02-04-2007, 09:13 PM

If you can get on then its ok for permanent link status as Wiki has great PR's.

I managed to stay on for my website: arcon5.com

- for the keyword 'Microsoft'

**dore1970** · 02-04-2007, 11:25 PM

digitalracks , wiki has a good PR but you don't get a piece of it since they use "nofollow" tag

asapcorp , it's a great idea to post your sites to Wiki , you'll get good traffic (that's depend on # of times people search for this subject) also this traffic will be targeted traffic.

**ForrestCroce** · 02-05-2007, 01:41 AM

It's considered good form to submit your link to an article's talk page, explain what it points to and why that's relevant to the topic at hand, and leave it to other editors. Even if you write the entire article, and donate images for it. Every now and then an editor will come along and clean up the external links section, so you really have a better chance of staying if your site is non commercial and doesn't have loads of advertising.

This can help bring traffic, but not page rank or other SEO advantage from other search engines, as Dore1970 pointed out.

**MysteryLeo** · 03-14-2007, 03:07 AM

being a wikipedia user, this thread scares the hell out of me. spam spam spam

**vangogh** · 10:00 PM

Leo I'm with you. I don't think the point of Wikipedia is to promote yourself and I don't think if you do your links will last all that long. I hope I was clear about that above.

**Learning Newbie** · 03-14-2007, 04:47 PM

Leo, I use Wikipedia myself, and you're absolutely right. But the new frontier in Wiki spam is WP articles. Have a company and a web site? Create an article to promote it, and have a few sock puppets contribute to the article to make it look legit. Out of the 1.5 million English pages, I bet a quarter million of them are spam articles.

**john546** · 04-10-2007, 12:05 AM

I think Wiki is cracking down on the spam in their site. They have started deleting some external links to sites.

**sheena** · 04-11-2007, 04:28 AM

Yes it would be good to add links to wikipedia external links because it can help boost traffic for the site and a trusted site to visit.

Quote:

Originally Posted by asapcorp

I have few sites that covers different subjects each.

I'd like to submit them to wikipedia, in the external links section, at the bottom of their articles...

All my pages have real content on them.

Would it be good to add my links to wikipedia, or a total waste of time? Would people really click on my links, in wikipedia's articles?

Thanks in advance!

**ForrestCroce** · 04-11-2007, 05:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sheena

Yes it would be good to add links to wikipedia

Good for who?

Quote:

Originally Posted by sheena

external links because it can help boost traffic for the site and a trusted site to visit.

This is exactly why Wikipedia isn't a trusted site.

**fleshas** · 04-11-2007, 05:46 AM

nice idea to add a link to wiki. I will try to do this too

**yasha78** · 04-12-2007, 07:38 PM

If your website has content that greatly expands on a wikipedia article topic - try adding it. After all, that's what the external links sections are for. You have to be objective though. I added sections of my medical info site into relevant wikipedia articles and they remained there - because that was a useful resource.

Alternatively, if you are not sure, post to the article discussion page - and explain the reasons why you think including the link to your site would benefit the article.

**kline11** · 04-22-2007, 05:54 PM

wikipedia hates this and they will remove the link almost as quickly as you add it.

**Slick Nick** · 04-22-2007, 11:19 PM

I dont really like the idea of exploiting wikipedia for traffic. Wiki is there for free information for the masses, not for a bunch of website owners to steal traffic from. Dont add links to wikis unless it is actually useful