why should you care about having links on Wikipedia? Well, Wikipedia has over 6 millionregistered users, over 11 million internal site pages and receives over 130 million unique visitors eachmonth. It is also the 9th most popular website on the internet according to Alexa.com. So, needless tosay, it has a huge potential to bring in killer amounts of traffic.
When looking for places to add links, keep in mind that some of the most popular Wikipedia pages,such their Search Engine Optimization Wiki, don’t allow editing or external links due to the high rate ofspam being posted.
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Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and do a search for a keyword or topic within yourniche. Then scroll down to the bottom of the page to the External Links section. If you have a valuableresource that fits within the parameters set by Wikipedia you can include a link to it there. A valuableresource can include many things (article, list, directory of something, non-profit organizations and soon).
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you can’t put an external link on every single page related to your niche, or you’ll risk beingpermanently banned (more on this later). But you can choose a few handfuls of pages and add yourrelevant link.
Wikipedia can trace your IP address and see every single change you’ve ever made, orthey can trace your username with similar results. Either way, if you make a change to Wikipedia youleave your mark for which anyone else can see.
To edit the External Links simply click on the [edit] link on the right hand site of the Wiki’s ExternalLinks section and add the following code.
*[YourLink YourLinkAnchorText] Your Description]
more tips to help keep your links active
. Only link to something that is specifically relevant to the page you’re placing the link on and actually enhances it.