I’m sure you have heard of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. I use it everyday. Everytime I heard an unfamiliar phrase, or a person that sounds important as people keep talking about, or a famous history event, I typed - wiki [put the phrase, person, event name here] in my firefox. And it plays the magic. Oh yea, it is not just me, Google showed it to the world how big it is especially last year (tell me how is it not going to be bigger this year? :) )
So, what is the big revelation?
Allow me to put a personal note here. I run a non-profit music site since last year October. It is my part time hobby (to keep me sane :D ). It sits pretty well in google even without any SEO, bringing in a considerable amount of visitors everyday from there.
One day, I noticed traffic comes from Wikipedia, from a music artist biography page. I wanted to try how is it done. So, I signed up an account and added my site’s links to several more artist biography page. Surprising, it is very easy process, and I got it done without a sweat.
Please take note that I’m not doing any spam. My site did provide content (that you could not find anywhere else) about the artist (or music albums…etc) that really add value to the wiki pages as well as the readers.
How you should not do it?
I showed this to my friend who happened to run a hardware blog a while ago. Almost immediately, he added his blog links about Ipod (sorta ipod reviews) under the wikipedia’s ipod page, and succeeded on doing so. Nevertheless, his link got removed few hours later by the editors.
Again, don’t do it unless it provides real value, real content to the wiki pages, else, it is no different than spam. Wikipedia is a great resource, we should try to make it better, not worse ( especially for your personal benefit ).
Amazing Results
1 month later…
Apparently, Google loves backlinks from wikipedia. Some say better than DMOZ or Yahoo directory. I could not agree more.
Update: Wikipedia has already put “no-follow” tag on all their outgoing links. Meaning, no more link juice from them :(
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Rizky 07.02.06 at 3:50 pm
hi again, here’s a tip from the dark side from me if u don’t mind :P
well, if ur intention is purely for spamming. look first at the “last modified” date on the bottom of each page. find a page that seemed abandoned. then…well, hit em hard! :P
but even if ur not there to spam it, don’t be stupid. find an article that’s relevant to ur site’s topic. coz what we wan’t is REAL traffic. ain’t that right mr. Lim? :D
Lim CS 07.02.06 at 11:36 pm
Riz, yeah, you got me here.
The abandoned page spamming technique is amazing. Very, very dark indeed :)
john 07.26.06 at 7:25 am
It can also prevent the spammers to let them show their links which they want to be shown.
louiss 11.08.06 at 4:21 am
Lim cs,i one of the support of your forum,what can i do for have pr?can you teach me?please email me louislim2@yahoo.com,i will wait for your reply,thanks!