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

• [3] Error Analysis Tutorial
• [4] Errors contained in reference books - Internet Accuracy Project

Wow, that’s weird … the German version of Wikipedia does!
Take a look at: [5] 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 [6] 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 [7] https://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:
[8] 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
[9] 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.

yep folks, still nofollow Oh well, it does bring traffic though…

Yahoo does not honor the nofollow tag

Yeah, but what about those pesky editors who love to delete these links?

-Brad

Just wondering if it is a good idea to write a post about your own company or business name on Wikipedia and then add a link to your website?

Wikipedia links are nofollow but these links are really helpful to get good traffic. Wiki pages usually rank well for many search terms.

btw, thanks for nice post.

Great traffic generation ideas!

Thanks and keep up the good work.

John

this is so bad, but good for us!
i would not steal others articles as i think that undermines someone elses work.

work hard and write your own kick ass articles!

man thats a sweet way to generate traffic! thanks unique content is the key for sure though.

Congrats on your 100th post btw. I think you have the most detailed posts I have ever seen on any blog. Kudos to you.

Thanks for the information but i still confuse how to do this. if you give some live link or live example which follows the above strategy then it gives me great help for link submission in wikipedia.

Thanks agian

Thanks for the info.

Thanks again

thanks for this article

I´ve added some articles to Wikepedia, but all are delete, because I don´t have reference… so… they think, new knowledge is not welcome there… your idea is very simple… to add new references for those articles… thank you for the tip…

Thanks for the article

Thanks for this great article

Thanks for this excellent article

Great article. Thanx

wow! I’m really learning some cool things here…i’m getting glued 2 ur site now…hehe….really cool seo stuffz….lemme try the amazon free link rightaway….tanx a bunch!

great!!
i will try it!

isnt this method kind of old? links from wiki wont get any PR points??

Right now wikipedia links are nofallow, so they make no sense for page ranking and back link count.

Is this for navigation…

DONT DO THIS, wikipedia will blacklist your sites if try to promote yourself, thats blackhat, thats an enyclopedia not a link farm, look at the date of this post in 2009 SEO IS NOTHING like it was back in 2006

Very good article and thank you x100!

@ mike:

You are absolutely right, the date tells all. None of this works any more, times have changed indeed.

It’s amazing to see how many comments follow yours complimenting the method. Probably no way to pass on PR from no follow external links. I’ve checked and you’re right they are no follow. Thanks for reminding me.

I’m gonna try this right now.

Thanks Eli…

You may know “how to approach women” (or think you do), but you don’t know about wiki links. They’re all no follow. This page is from 2006 before they changed that. Now it only makes sense for direct visitors and if you hope that your link gets picked up by sites who copy Wikipedia. But most likely the wiki editors will just remove your link anyway, if it’s not top quality, closely related, and non-commercial.

This has been an entertaining day so far. Start reading through your archives from the start, now up to post 100

Hopefully your content continues to excel, which I imagine it does.

If you have just earned another loyal follower!

Do not self promote you will be penalised for sure!!!

I will use this info to promote my site

Bewitching content as it grabbing attention of visitors. Thanks a lot

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Is the trolling ever going to spot on Wikipedia, this seems to be getting more and more easy.

Enjoyed reading your article. Very interesting even after 4 years of it’s original post!

nice idea! will this still work in 2010?

this can result to your site being penalized.

Seriously. Genious.

This looks like spamming and i’m pretty sure it might get you penalized. If you get busted by an wikipedia editor, they might flag you and your website for spamming.

Nice article. Very informative. I think only black and white hat technique but still there is what we called Blue hat.

this can result to your site being penalized.

I just added this weblog to my feed reader, great stuff. Can’t get enough!

So, this method won’t work anymore?

I am very happy to get the news from your article, thanks to you could provide the information to me!

didn’t know i could do it

güncel haberler, takip edilmesi gereken haberler, dir

Great idea thanks for the info. Yeah, this does seem a little sneaky.

Even though wikipedia uses re=”nofollow”, I believe that google gives additional credibility to sites that have links from wikipedia. In other words, it is possible that wikipedia is the exception to the rule.

I think it add trust even though it is nofollow.

thanks good iformation for SEO

great post for links with good pr thanks

Could you please extend them a bit from next time? Thanks for the post.

keep it up
thanx

I know this an old post but I am sure many of you are still subscribed. Does anyone know if these tactics still work? I have never thought to use wikipedia to build links.

Thanks for sharing this post - I liked it a lot. wikipedia has always fascinated me.

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Does this method still work? i was thinking on adding some of my artist to wikipedia so we could have links from this site. Does this works for SEO? or nofollow tag is applied to my links? regards!

great post very interesting technics

I using these techniques but I am not satisfied with the result. Its progress is very slow according to my work and time .

Yes! This is really fantastic. You have by far the most entertaining SEO blog I’ve ever read. Well Done.

Nice and Interesting post Eli. Sometimes your posts leave my head spinning wondering what the hell I just read, but after a few days it always starts to make sense.

Great Post Eli

I am sure it is

Me either

I’ll second that, definitely a great Blog

:O what ?

qhat are u doing here ??

grt

hmmm

yup soo true

yeahh yeahh ryt.. realy very gr7 #97

mee too

good work eli..

Strategy posts are great, but I prefer the how-to’s and hacks.

I think this strategy is still viable as long as you are very careful, im going to try it out anyway. As long as the links are relative then surely they wont penalizeyou for it?

haberin genelini takip etmek için sayfamızı ziyaret ediniz. thanks.

güncel haberler için bizi takip edin. thanks.

i couldnt know it before, thanks for sharing the tips mate…

Yes mate. its working and your links will be converted to nofollow

Really Great article ! thanks for sharing with this with your readers. Have a nice day!

Right now wikipedia links are nofallow, so they make no sense for page ranking and back link count.

great article very good

Thanks for sharing this. Great post.

’ve checked and you’re right they are no follow

keep it up and keep updating guyz

thank for sharing the links..it is very useful

thats crazy, Why would they do that?

haberin genelini takip etmek için sayfamızı ziyaret ediniz. thanks.

Well, however - you are absolutely right about the english version.