Oh wow, I can’t believe it’s my 100th post already. Be sure to give me some kudos in the comments (haha I figure I’m allowed to fish for compliments every 100 posts or so). Well I can’t think of a better way to start the triple digits than by starting the first part of a four part tutorial on getting tons of links from Wikipedia. If PR is your concern please quit paying money for PR6’s, Wikipedia is full of them and waiting for you to post your link.
Lets begin with the White hat method since it is the simplest and will create the least amount of problems for you later on. It’s a little more manual labor intensive than the rest, but fuck it, it’s easy and worth it.
Methodology
1) Make a list of all your top terms. For instance if I were promoting Blue Hat SEO I’d make a list with something to the effect of: Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Link Building, Website Promotion, SEO Tools, Black Hat, and White Hat.
2) Create a small article section of your site. Write 2-4 articles for each keyword and put them in the terms section. So my site might be organized like this.
Search Engine Optimization
|-Article 1
|-Article 2
|_Article 3
Link Building
|-Article 1
|-Article 2
|_Article 3
You get the idea. Then just make sure each article only contains links back to your site or other pages on your site. However you want to distribute the new found linking power.
3) Go to Wikipedia.org and do a search for each one of your terms. Try to find the PR6 and above sections that directly use your terms. There may be anywhere from 1-15 for each one of your major terms. So dig deep.
4) Click on the Edit This Page tab. Go to the portion that says
==External links==
and add your link using the following code:
* [http://www.example.com Anchor Tag] A collection of free articles.
Let the link hunt begin! This is particularly useful for Ecom sites that sell tons of different types of products. Once the articles are up it only takes a couple hours to gain a good 50 or so one way PR6 links. I’ve had one site of mine gain over 150 PR6 links and 72 PR5 links this way. It took a little bit of work, but its not spammy and your links are almost guaranteed to stick.
If the article creation is going to be a problem just be an asshole
Look at the other related links listed. Steal some of their noncopyrighted articles and replace their link with yours. Chances are no one will even notice the change. Ouch I just caused a problem didn’t I?
Quick question if I may: are you saying that you should post to the different categories and that’s how you get the links? Thanks
“Let the link hunt begin! This is particularly useful for Ecom sites that sell tons of different types of products. Once the articles were up it only takes a couple hours to gain a good 50 or so one way PR6 links.”
Yep, I love getting comments from my blog readers too. Nice post on Wikipedia. Very useful.
You are aware of the fact that Wikipedia uses ref=nofollow on links, aren’t you?
So how do you think these links are going to pass PR to your sites?
robb, yep i supose. this is just the simple white hat way. Don’t look too much into it. It’s merely stuff that had to get said before we could move on. If it was advanced I would of made it a blue hat technique.
Chris,
Thanks man, you should post your blog sometime on here. So we can read it too.
me(not really me),
On external links Wikipedia DOES NOT use rel=nofollow. I’m sorry but that is just dead wrong.
Here’s a typical external link section from wiki
External links
Wow, that’s weird … the German version of Wikipedia does!
Take a look at: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunde (The last paragraph “Web Links” contains a link with a nofollow.)
I don’t get it …
Well, however - you are absolutely right about the english version.
thats crazy, Why would they do that?
Thanks for the response, Chris. All my sites are extremely niche so I’m lucky they have one page.
You must have something a bit more mainstream…
BTW, good posts
Hey robby you haven’t posted in awhile on your blog. wtf? I need my fix
en.wikipedia does not have no-follow. I am linked a few places in wikipedia. And I have to say its easy except with a few key notes:
First, your links have to contribute to the article, If you just post a link on another article, your link needs to be a “true” reference to that article and you should probably add something to the wikipedia article to make it more relevent.
Second. Wikipedia sometimes is strictly moderated. You must watch out what you do and stick with wikipedia rules, otherwise your link will not last, and even worse you risk being banned {ip ban too}.
So be careful. I recommend you legitimently contribute to wikipedia and reference your article. That works well. Write your own article also with a sightly different title to another one, that works wonders!
Excellent advice John.
Thanks for the contribution
Ah, now this is a beautiful and much anticipated post.
I’m late to it tough because my fishing RSS reader was broken.
Can’t wait for the next one!
Excellent post. I just stumbled across your site and this was my first read.
Okay so now I have about 16 well written articles on 8 related keywords all tucked away on a section of my website and I’ve added the code over at http://www.wikipedia.org/ . Those higher PR links are sure to be on there way.
You say four parts to your tutorial?
Great! See you around then.
Wikipedia Links Part 1 - step by step tutorial
Often I find myself sorting through webpages in search of excellent information. Information that is worth sharing to others. There’s a post over at http://www.bluehatseo.com that takes a reader step by step through the process of obtaining PR5 …
I have been in a total link war with a few competing websites for the last 6 months… they removing mine and vice versa… I love it. I love dropping a dozen wiki links and book marking them with yahoo… Its like instant results.
Heya Seostomp,
Welcome to the blue hat home
I love your blog although i’m mentioned way too much in it haha. Good sense of humor though and drunkin blogging definitely rules all. lol
I would absolutely LOVE IT if you wrote a quick tutorial on the yahoo bookmark trick for bluehatseo, cus it is a damn good trick. Eitherway i’d love to hear more about it.
I would have commented sooner but I couldn’t add 5 and 6….. Real simple trick but I will send you something.
It seems like Wikipedia is cracking down on this (at least in the automotive-related areas). I had some links (along with other people) for several months…last week, some editors came through and wiped everything clean, updated all the page content, and only list external links to “official” auto manuf sites.
I guess I could keep going back in and editing, or try to find some “low profile” pages that might not get much editor attention.
To Rett:
Try using the “what links here”.
Btw, when you click “what links here” on wikipedia, what sorting do they use?
It’s obvious the articles at the top are the most popular, I’m just not sure exactly which way they are.
I’ve also noticed that you can post a keyword related link to wikipedia articles that are the least popular, yet they still have a pr > 0. Eventually after some months someone will catch the unrelated link.
What about ‘no follow tag used by Wikipedia?
This checks all the PR transfer from Wikipedia to your link page.
read above
Welcome to NO FOLLOW on English Wikipedia, folks. As of this weekend.
Stop trying to do battle with Wikipedia, when you can LITERALLY get better Google results with Centiare.com. (We surmise it’s because we’re using semantic tagging, and Google loves that.)
Don’t believe? Read this:
http://www.centiare.com/Centiare:Search_Engine_Optimization
You’ll begin to believe.
yeah bummer about the nofollow. Doesn’t matter much. People are giving less and less of a shit about pagerank these days. Besides that most links on the web now are nofollow. Its even yet to be proven that Google even cares about the nofollow. We know Yahoo doesn’t.
Sorry, Wiki is still an authoritive link. So they will continue to get spammed.
Gregory, I see no evidence that your site helps google rankings. Except the obscure examples on your site like:
“West Chester church shepherd”??????
Your own site “centiare.com” is not ranked in the top 5 pages on google(that’s as far as i checked) for free directory, directory, or free encyclopedia.
Also Wiki is ranked #1 in google for “Search Engine Optimization”.
Can you give some better examples of results from using your site?
Thanks,
MarkJ.
P.S. Great site Eli! I’ve been lurking for about 3 days and using some of your tips I’ve got a free PR4 link to my site and a PR6 listing on Wiki. You Da Man!!!
I will try this. So can we submit any site which is related to term alredy existing in Wikipedia?
So Wikipedia now uses nofollows - that’s a bummer, but don’t forget all the sites that scrape content from wikipedia that don’t use nofollow tags like answers.com, etc.
So let me get this write. does anyone know if the wiki links still work? Is it worth posting articals and links for wiki. Please let me know and any examples are most welcome
Samuel
http://www.thephonenetwork.co.uk
HI ya!
Are all Wiki links nofollow now?
As far as I can see the majority of the top level pages are definitely using no-follow.
100% of Wikipedia pages are now no follow for external site links.
Heck, nofollow links are worth plenty. It’s pretty well establish that a fair number of keyword-rich links in blog positings (that implement can help a site rank. I’ve heard of people getting to the #3 or #4 page (30′th-40′th) spot for highly competitive keywords.
I’ve also noticed that some new sites seem to not just a ’sandbox’ but also a ‘honeymoon’. During the honeymoon it seems that Google scans the site again and again trying to determine if it’s a blog or another site that gets updated frequently. Pretty soon the site starts getting hits from people searching for non-competitive keywords.
In a month or so, if the site isn’t getting updated, the scan rate drops and suddenly the search results start coming. This is the dreaded ’sandbox’. I’ve noticed, however, that a single fresh nofollow link from a blog can, very quickly, get the site ranking again for noncompetive terms.
This trick isn’t powerful enough to help you quit your day job, but it certainly helps when you’re trying to bring in enough adsense to cover the domain name registration!
mm.. thank you man
Yep, all external links on wikipedia is nofollow. However it is still worth getting a link from the relevant page for traffic purposes only. I have recieved about half my traffic for a particular keyword from wikipedia as I get from google. Not bad at all.
The nofollow thing is garbage. Search engines still find the links. Get this - they even give an SEO boost to sites listed in the Project Spam directory because they can read the url’s right there too. Sometimes, they slap the word spam in front of it, but the links are still being picked up. I don’t recommend you heh heh deliberately try to get your links removed. But if you do and you wind up in the WikiProject_Spam directory, don’t feel too bad, you still getting SEO.
The no follow tag is not adhered to by Yahoo for sure.
Google still follows the same
Wikipedia is #1 on Google for some searches, sex for an example. Would be nice to get your link on those pages.
Be careful with this because I tried this on one of my sites and within a week I lost some of my rankings in google. Not sure if this had anything to do with this but I am guessing they reported my site for spamming.