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soopermark
Joined: May 12, 2002
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Posted: 2006-Aug-30 16:54
Hi, my website was linked by someone from wikipedia and since then I get a few clicks each week from that URL. I then created an account and added a link to my site from a different wikipedia URL. That begs a few questions:
1. to what extent should I add links to my site from wikipedia? Obviously at a certain point it becomes spam. I have identified about 200 existing URLs at wiki which talk about items I am selling, have pictures of, information about, etc. What has the seo community discovered about wikipedia?
2. why does Google rank wikipedia so high in terms of search results? It seems like wikipedia is a type of competitor of google. I mean, just about every search I do these days shows wikipedia in the top 2 or 3 results. Why even go to Google, just go to wiki to start with if every search takes you to wiki. Does google own wikipedia? Any insight into this dynamic is appreciated.
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dudibob
Joined: Oct 13, 2005
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Posted: 2006-Aug-30 17:10
Wikipedia is one of the most trusted sources on the web which is especially why it ranks so highly in Google (coz Google are based arounda trust algo kinda).
>>to what extent should I add links to my site from wikipedia?
do you mean you have been editing Wikipedia adding links to your site!?
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2006-Aug-30 20:24
Wikipedia, like many sites, do not allow self-promotion.
Expect many of your links to be deleted en masse when discovered.
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soopermark
Joined: May 12, 2002
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Posted: 2006-Aug-30 22:28
Hi. Thanks. I have not read the wiki terms but would not violate them. There are no enmasse links to my site from wiki, there are only two. One was put there by someone who I don't know, that links to an information page on my site. The other was added by myself after I discovered the first one via my log stats, poked around and noticed a place where a link to my site would be appropriate. There are also topics on my site that are not yet part of wiki, but I could easily add to wiki. Should I? That would just result in wiki leapfrogging my already decent position for that topic.
The question remains as to why Google allows wiki to be so highly positioned, when it looks to me like wiki is a competitor. They now have entries at wiki on nearly every possible topic. Something to think about.
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neiljones
Joined: Eons Ago
# Posts: 80
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Posted: 2006-Sep-05 13:07
Could someone please tell me where on wikipedia the policy of not linking to your own pages is stated. I am aware of the rule but I don't believe it to be absolute. THee is also the rule that if the encyclopedia can be improved by braking a rule you are allowed to.
Linking to one of your own pages is not necessarily self promotion. What if you a leading expert and your site is the only decent source of additional information?
I'll give you an example. I speak a language that is endangered and only spoken by a few hundred thousand speakers. There is also a significant difference between the spoken and written dialects so many speakers are not fully literate. It has its own wikipedia.
I have recently started an article in that Language on an obscure animal which I am interested in. The keyword is commercially worthless, but I am probably one of only perhaps two people who could write a good authoritive article on the subject without having to spend time learning about it first.
I plan to create my own set of webpages in that Language, but I am busy trying to make money at present. Since I have devoted a lifetime of study to my "nerdy" personal interest I will proabably be able to create the most comprehensive website available in that langauge. I have a lot of interesting lifecycle and parasitology photographs that I don't neccessarily want to give to Wikipedia.
As I said the subject and the language are rare and I stand nothing to gain personally. Should I really have to go thought the rigmarole of getting somone else to put the link in?
BTW there is only a stub in the English wikipedia I will have to translate it.
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bhartzer
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Joined: Jun 08, 2000
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Posted: 2006-Sep-05 19:46
Could someone please tell me where on wikipedia the policy of not linking to your own pages is stated.
I don't think it says that anywhere. So, adding a link to your own content would be okay.
But, keep in mind that when you add that link it will be reviewed by several other people--and if it's not a helpful link then it will be removed. Make absolutely sure that whatever links you add to Wikipedia are pointing to content that's truly valuable and on-topic and doesn't exist elsewhere on the web.
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