Wikipedia and SEO

 

I recently came across a forum post where the original poster was recommending that webmasters add as many external links to Wikipedia as possible to get quality backlinks and better search engine rankings. I've also seen posts of webmasters who have seen a sudden dip in page ranking for particular pages only to find it's down to the fact that a link to their site has been removed from Wikipedia.

Clearly there is some erroneous information out there and some confusion as to whether or not you should use Wikipedia for backlinking. The answer is yes and no.

Yes, Wikipedia can provide quality backlinks but no, you shouldn't just add as many as you like.

I took the liberty of writing an article entitled, Can you use Wikipedia to Build Backlinks?

The article invites you to think carefully before adding external links to Wikipedia and details eight points for webmasters to consider.

Read the article here.

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