Wikipedia is one of the biggest, oldest and most authoritative websites on the internet which makes Wikipedia backlinks one of the most powerful links on the planet.
Honestly, it is hard to do a Google search for any term that doesn’t list Wikipedia in the top 10 nowadays.
But are Wikipedia backlinks still as effective today as they used to be?
Well let me tell you, they sure are!
The site, the traffic and the authority isn’t going anywhere in the near future. So there is a lot to be gained from Wikipedia backlinks.
And in this article I’m going to show you how to build as many Wikipedia backlinks you want, using just a few simple techniques.
As well as another very sneaky link building trick to get links from authority sites.
So if you want to build unlimited links that put your site on the map, read on…
What You Will Learn
- How to get powerful Wikipedia backlinks
- How to get links from other authority sites
- How to get targeted high-quality traffic
- How to do it all quickly & easily in 1 clean sweep
Why Should You Be Building Links With Wikipedia?
Over the last few years I’ve found an easy way to build Wikipedia backlinks that is simple and effective.
Not only that but with my personal twist you’ll also get links and traffic from other authoritative sites as well!
But first let’s address the elephant in the room…
Why should you be building Wikipedia links? Well, there are a lot of reasons.
First of all Wikipedia shows up in the search results for almost every term. It is a seriously authoritative site and a backlink from them is a really strong endorsement for your site.
Google loves a genuine link from Wikipedia and they should since real moderators review the links.
Not only that, but a Wikipedia link will actually generate very relevant traffic to your website. How?
Because the entire site is focused on delivering high quality information on a specific search term to their readers. Whether that’s information about Kevin Bacon, Olympic Gold Medalists or Rock Polishing.
The best bit? If your site is linked from a Wikipedia page it will generate additional links from other websites looking to use your site as a reference!
So Wikipedia isn’t only a backlink, it’s a traffic generating, natural backlink generating machine! And is a worthy place of spending your time.
In the next section I’m going to talk you through the three main types of links we’ll be looking to build in Wikipedia.
Wikipedia Link Building 101: What Are You Looking For?
Building links in Wikipedia isn’t as simple as saying, “Hey, my article is better than that dudes! I want to be featured there instead.”
The way to build links in Wikipedia, although it’s easy, needs to be done tactically.
That means there are three opportunities to build links that you’re looking for:
- Dead link opportunities
- Broken link opportunities
- Unique link opportunities
Let’s take a look at what each of these is and how you identify them for your own site.
The Dead Link Opportunity
By Wikipedia’s definition a Dead link is used to describe a link that is no longer active. Meaning that the content that was once on the other side of the link isn’t there anymore.
This indicates to Wikipedia moderators (or anyone looking) that the link needs to be fixed or updated.
And your content could be just the link that they’re looking for.
Wikipedia is just like any other website. Because there are so many links, hundreds of them are broken and almost impossible to keep on top of in real time.
So your opportunity for building links here comes in the form of providing them with the content they need to fill that link. Simple, eh?
The Broken Link Opportunity
One of the more white hat link building tactics is to scour the web looking for broken links.
But that is super time consuming and can often result in a lot of work for not alot of outcome.
However if you’re a savvy SEO, you’ll have realised that if the link is broken on Wikipedia it is broken for all the sites that link to it as well.
Meaning from one broken link you can find anywhere from five to five thousand link building opportunities, depending on the niche and the topic.
If you don’t have the content for the broken link yet, don’t worry, we’ll explore that later in the article.
The Unique Link Opportunity
Everyone is able to create a Wikipedia account.
And that means you have access to creating your own link building opportunities on specific pages.
In theory I could go in and edit this page on keyword research and add in my own links to my own articles in the relevant sections.
This would be by adding new content that improves the overall structure and information on the page. Whether it’s a new sentence, paragraph or entirely new section.
But I don’t recommend you just do that. Simply because all links have to be approved by moderators. So if a page suddenly has five new links all pointing to one page, there’s a good chance you’re going to get caught out.
Instead you should go in and do your duty as a good Wikipedia citizen and update content, repair broken links and add new findings where possible.
Then if your article happens to be one of the ones included then that’s a good result for everyone involved.
The Sweet Spot: Putting All Of These Opportunities Together
If you combine the dead link, broken link and unique link opportunities you have a flexible, easy to manage Wikipedia backlink building strategy.
You can:
- Use dead links to build Wikipedia backlinks
- Use broken links to get links from authority sites
- Include your own unique links in Wikipedia pages
If you can replicate this with four or five pages, the amount of links you’ll be able to build with targeted, relevant pages keeps growing.
This approach makes it really easy to get some serious link juice & relevant traffic!
But this leads us to an important question, how do you find all of these link opportunities?
Well there’s a really simple, free, solution for that…
How To Use WikiGrabber To Get Wikipedia Backlinks
The best tool for finding link building opportunities with Wikipedia is WikiGrabber.
The tool has been updated in recent years and is really powerful:
All you have to do is enter a search term and the site will come back with a list of related pages on Wikipedia that either need a reference or have a deadlink.
It is really easy to use but let me step you through the process…
The Step-by-Step Guide To Using WikiGrabber
All you have to do is enter a relevant search query to your niche, for example I could use SEO, marketing, link building or social media etc.
In this example I’m going to do a search for the term search engine:
This returns a list of pages on Wikipedia that are related to search engines but need citations or broken links fixing.
By default you will see results that need citations first and dead links second, but you can click on the buttons at the top to filter them accordingly.
I can see that this page on Wikipedia needs citations and has a broken link:
All I have to do then is go over to the page and press ctrl+f to open up a find box and type in either citation needed or dead link to find where they are.
Then you’ll see the result at the end of the page:
Simple and easy!
Sometimes WikiGrabber doesn’t update in real-time, so it helps to find a lot of pages and search for these opportunities too. Just in case your vacancy has already been filled.
How To Use Google To Get Wikipedia Backlinks
If WikiGrabber doesn’t seem like your kind of tool (for whatever reason) all is not lost. You can use good old Google to find your dead links too.
Just head over to Google and use this advanced query:
site:wikipedia.org “Keyword phrase” “dead link”
If I use this for a similar category to above, search engines, I’m greeting with a lot of pages showing a dead link:
By clicking on one I’m able to use the exact same ctrl+f method to find the dead link. Like so:
This method is just as simple, but you’ll have to do a little more work on finding the relevant pages. But it’s there if you need it.
So now you know how to find the broken link opportunities, let’s look at how you can get the actual links for yourself…
Wikipedia Link Building In Action (And How To Do It Yourself)
Now you’re armed with a Wikipedia link building tool – be it WikiGrabber or Google Advanced Search – let’s look at a specific example, selected at random – Binoculars.
If I run this through WikiGrabber you will find a bunch of pages about binoculars that feature broken links:
I’m going to choose this option because it’s hyper-relevant to the binoculars niche (based on zero experience with binoculars):
And in the page we can confirm that, yes, it does have a dead link:
Now copy and paste the URL and head over to the Wayback Machine tool.
Copy the link into the search bar and hit go:
This will show us what the page used to look like before it was taken down. Have a read of the content to see if it’s related to your website.
If it is relevant to your site you either need to find content that you’ve created which could fill this hole. Or, you need to create the content that fits.
You can even just rewrite the content that shows up in the Wayback Machine if that really floats your boat.
And if it’s not relevant, keep following these steps until you find something that is relevant.
But let’s say for argument’s sake that it is relevant to your site. Here comes the really fun part…
Take the dead link and run it through a tool like Ahrefs, Majestic or SERPed to see all of the backlinks pointing to it.
As you can see with this one there are 34 links and 14 domains pointing in its direction:
30 or more is a good number of links to have because it means it’s worth the effort. Why?
Because it’s a topic people want or need to link to.
It gives you a lot of options of webmasters to write to (success rates aren’t always high).
And it means it’s worth investing your time in creating the content should you need to.
And because this link needs updating, it’s time for you to swoop in and make it happen.
Either create a new page as I mentioned earlier, or update your existing content to fit this topic.
Make sure it ticks all of the boxes that a Wikipedia page would need to use this blog post as a reference.
Then you want to export the list of websites from Ahrefs that currently link to the dead link and look up all of the contact details. A tool like Hunter can help you with that.
Then you can send an outreach email to each of those to let them know about the broken link and your potential replacement.
If you’re stuck for an email to send to a webmaster you can use my own template below:
How To Add Your Own Unique Links To Wikipedia
On your search for dead links you’ll come across some pages that are a real mess. They’ll have been flagged by Wikipedia to be improved but nobody has gotten around to it yet.
For example take a look at this page on language barriers:
The Wikipedia Moderators are just crying out for you to come in and improve that page. And, well…sprinkle it with a few links for your time.
If you’re running a language learning blog, for example, you could come in and create this page newly. Finding all of the resources you need to turn this page into an encyclopedia page.
You could even rework the content you’ve written afterward to create a blog post for your own blog, hitting two birds with one stone.
In this section let’s look at how you can capitalize here and generate some wonderful backlinks for your site.
Creating And Preparing Your Wikipedia Account
Anyone can create a Wikipedia account – it is 100% free.
Just click on Create Account in the top right corner of the site:
Once you have created your account I recommend going into this article you’ve found and adding citations, cleaning up dead links and using other people’s sites and content. (Feel free to use my blog to update articles – contact me if you do).
Let’s say you’re aiming for a 70-80% clean up of the page, leaving just enough room to add details from your site in there.
Once those changes are approved, you’re now ready to drop a link to your site on your target Wikipedia article.
Things To Consider Before You Add Your Links
Before we start editing Wikipedia and updating it with our citation/link fix there are a couple of things to think about.
First of all when you submit the edit, it will need to pass human moderation so you have to take that into consideration.
If you’re just throwing out a link to a site with poor quality content that has nothing to do with the required citation or dead link fix it is not going to get approved.
So if you don’t have relevant content on your site to use as a citation/reference already then put some time and effort into creating it.
Basically just because you have a blog post about learning Chinese, it doesn’t mean you get to drop it anywhere.
Editing An Article To Insert Your Wikipedia Backlink
Editing an article on Wikipedia is super easy, just find what you want to edit and click on the edit link.
Once you have done that you will be taken to the Wikipedia editor.
Make sure you are logged into your account then fix the dead link or add your citation as required:
Once you have done that preview the changes and make sure everything is working ok.
If you are happy with it fill out the edit summary with your changes and click on save page:
Now just sit back and wait to see if your change is approved! If you spent time creating your account with a bit of history you won’t have a problem here.
Wrapping It Up
Phew! There you have it. Exactly how to build unlimited links with Wikipedia in a small space of time.
But let’s take a minute to recap everything you’ve learned so you can replicate it again, and again, and again in the future:
Building links with Wikipedia is effective and comes with lots of benefits outside of just having a link on their site, including relevant traffic and backlink opportunities with other sites.
There are three types of opportunities you should be looking for:
- Dead links: Marked by Wikipedia these links are no longer on the internet
- Broken links: These are the links of third party sites that were also linking to that page
- Unique links: Your chance to place your own links in Wikipedia pages
Finding these links is super easy, you can either do it through Google searches looking for dead links or using the WikiGrabber tool.
Having a tool like Ahrefs, SEMRush or SERPed allows you to find the broken links on other sites that were also pointing to that article. You can then contact the webmaster to add your content in it’s place.
And to create unique links you need to have your own Wikipedia account to add them in. But remember to be a good citizen and not just spam your own links in there. Add one of your own links for every 10 or 12 you include in a page.
Now all that’s left to do is get on Wikipedia and start building links!
Let me know how you get on with this strategy in the comments..
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Excellent, informative article – thanks!
One question, does it not matter to you that wikipedia links are ‘nofollow’?
Its nice to have a good mix – personally I disregarded follow/nofollow 2-3 years back
It’s a little disappointing, but in saying that 1 wikipedia nofollow link can put a low to mid range term at #1, I do it for most my clients.
I did it for my first ever client, I did zero link building as I had no money upfront from the client and broke myself. They shot up to page 1-2 from nowhere (3 year old site) for some highly competitive local terms.
So while it is nofollow, it’s generally best to disregard nofollow/dofollow I try to keep “dofollow” around 50-75% of all links, but it doesn’t matter too much and that’s just personal preference. I have no concrete proof that’s a good ratio or anything.
Look at it from Google’s eyes. Every social network and high authority on the web uses nofollow. If they really did disregard nofollow links then nobody would rank for anything. You would only have monster authority sites in every search.
The proof is in the pudding ^^
I’m going to respectfully disagree with this comment. It’s nothing personal, and there are some widely-help beliefs that I’d like to discuss.
Myth 1: Nofollow links provide some ranking power: Matt Cutts debunked this in the very last paragraph of his blog post (https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/).
“Nofollow links definitely don’t pass PageRank. Over the years, I’ve seen a few corner cases where a nofollow link did pass anchortext, normally due to bugs in indexing that we then fixed. The essential thing you need to know is that nofollow links don’t help sites rank higher in Google’s search results.”
Matt could be lying, but I have never seen any evidence of nofollow links helping a site rank. From my own personal experience having a few Wikipedia links did nothing until I got some high DA DO FOLLOW links.
Myth 2: It would be suspicious to have 0 nofollow links: Not always. There are lots of good reasons why nofollowed links would make up a tiny portion of your link profile – even smaller than the ~2% of all links that are nofollow. (https://moz.com/blog/58-billion-urls-largest-linkscape-index-update-yet). I honestly don’t see Google bringing down the penalty hammer because you lack nofollow links. It COULD send up a flag, which might initiate additional checks on your site.
REALLY, really good stuff here. I had read an article about this a while ago but it wasn’t as detailed so there were a few steps I hadn’t figured out. This is perfect!! Really excited to finally give this a try now— thanks!
Let us know how you get on!
Wikipedia links can be great for sending quality traffic like you say. Some years ago I managed to get several links to an authority site I was building and the traffic was golden.
That said, it’s important to appreciate that by it’s very definition Wikipedia is a constantly evolving site and links can come and go like the wind so just be aware of this before you invest too much time in the concept.
Thats very true! Just make sure your content is awesome!
Nice out of the box thinking! The biggest problem are the Wikipedia moderators. Some of those guys are out of their mind and even delete valid changes.
Build up your account first/make great contributions and it will be harder for them to say no!
Now I think I’ll have to try this. Actually I have also read this on Brain’s blog but thought that it’d be much more time consuming. Will post here how effectively it works for me.
Thanks and Regards.
Got a link for that?
Awesome article, I’m thinking about creating content in wikipedia with reference to tourist places which are not published on wikipedia.
Well creating content directly on Wikipedia has its own benefits =D
There is an article / debate on this at Link Assistant – and how you can use their powersuite tools to automate it – it does seem a very time consuming process – even when using tools to make it easier – and you are still reliant on the wiki author being kind enough to use your link rather than the dead one – anyone using powersuite tools can see how to use them for this purpose here – http://www.link-assistant.co.uk/news/broken-links/
Thanks for pointing that out!
Another great post Matt… Ive been using this method since finding a post on Brian Deans blog a while back. An extra spin is to use the footprint with Scrapebox to find hundreds at a time and pull in various metrics to use along side so you can order by importance.
An issue I found though is that a lot of moderators say that linking to waybackmachine is the correct/preffered method. Any tips to get round this?
Just make your content so awesome they can’t refuse!
Great article. I’ve been grabbing dead links from Wikipedia but didn’t think of the whole ahrefs and other linking sites.
This will greatly help me rank my sites. :’)
Thanks Matt
There’s always an extra twist to find!
What a great idea this is. Nice way to find out broken links on Wikipedia and use it to your advantage. Links from authoritative website! Lovely, thank you very much for this.
Enjoy =D
Another awesome and brilliant piece of tutorial :).
Cheers mate.
Hello :
I Thank u so much for This good manner to get backlinks, and really u r genisu andnothing to say about that, and I wihs for u goo success in the future , plz one question for the last section to send an emai l to the webmaster “Here is an example email you could send”,,U mean to send an emai l to the webmaster of the website , or to contact Wikipedia!
To the webmasters of the websites you found with ahrefs and majestic seo
Thanks for the share and additional tips mate!
All good dude!
more than happy to!
~ PD
Ahhh thats a sweet extra tip!
Nice ^^
Hi Marius – Thank you!
Thanks for the advice on that. I definitely had the “en” version in mind…sorry to be so narrow minded. :)
Yeah, one could totally apply this to any language version that Wikipedia has. There could be even more opportunities in other languages.
Actually he found me ^^
Any Broken Link on matthewwoodward.co.uk? :P i Want to add my blog’s link there :D
Hahaha probably ^^
Way to hustle Hammad!
From a Wikipedia editors perspective with 10,000+edits and 4 years on it, this is more like it when it comes to inserting links to Wikipedia. The major hurdle would be the patience to build an account with several edits before link insertions are made.
Thanks for the insider tip!
Thanks Matthew,
Recently, you have been dishing out more on relevant ways to harness free traffic. I really gained a lot from the Tynt blast. I am moving right away to check up on this.
Thanks men, you made my day
Glad it helped – you shouldn’t thank me for this one though!
Just wonder how long you have to search to find a broken link that fits your site or keyword you try to rank for.
Tryed it out on several keyphrases and the broken links I’ve found were totaly unusefull to build links to regarding my origin keyphrase.
Furthermore the Wayback Machine didn’t even have one ressource in its archive…
What could be the reason?
The reason is your focused on anchor text instead of just the link
This is incredible article. I searched around web for wikipedia links, and I got 2 links within 20 minutes :) Hope moderators will approve my links.
Thanks for sharing such an amazing tip Matthew!
Its not my tip but I’m glad it paid off for you!
Really awesome post! Loved the way you use such simple tricks to get high quality backlinks from authority sites. Wikipedia link would be perfect anytime for ranking my keywords on Google.
Thanks for sharing :)
Good luck =D
Fantastic tips! I’ve just started following your blog and must say, it’s quickly becoming one of my favorites.
Thanks – no kudos for me on this one though :)
Don’t they just delete it, if you’re trying to use wikipedia as backlink for your website?
Not if you take time to add value
It’s all down to the quality of content your linking to
No worrys glad you enjoyed it!
I already read this in other seo blog, but this is more comprehensive and well detailed. Much easy to understand and easy to follow. Worth sharing to others.. thanks…
Glad you liked it!
Hello Matthew,
Excellent write up. This is something really interesting. I tried up the same strategy, but could not be benefitted for longer period of time from Wikipedia.
I would also like to know is there any way we can do the same ( I mean can we use the same strategy for finding broken link from other blogs and site similar to wikipedia????).
Once again thanks for sharing this important post with us
Arjun
Yeah there is a couple of links in the post you can follow about broken link building with other sites
This is a cool and really sneaky backlinking trick. Didn’t even know you could edit dead links on Wikipedia, so I’ll have to edit some articles and then find something relevant and give this a try.
Thanks for sharing this with us!
Nigel
Let us know how you get on!
Let us know how you get on with it!
Thanks for this really smart tip. Until now I didn’t even noticed that Wikipedia is marking dead links with the “dead link” sign ;)
Have some fun with it :)
Would this technique also work for niche eCommerce businesses? As Google Adwords is so expensive!
If it provides content that delivers value
Cool tips. Thanks a lot for sharing. A lot of SEO’s gave up on Wiki’s as a link building tactic because of how saturated they have become, but those who think outside of the box always win. Cheers.
winner winner chicken dinner!
This is really a gold for me! I am implementing this right now!
Let us know how you get on!
I am new to blogging and learning Everything about it whether it is SEO or anything else. You have written up a healthy tip to get a golden Backlinks from the Wikipedia. I am just taking an action just after reading your post and writing this Comment.
Thank You Matthew Woodward. You are turning it up for me. Thanks again.
I didn’t write it but glad it helped!
I was finding a way for getting…backlink from wikipedia…and now there is a little hope for the link…..Nice Post I’m Following u with Feeds……
Let us know how it goes!
Now this is easy. I agree with you that Wikipedia is one of the most searched website in the World Wide Web that attracts millions of internet surfers every day. Being able to find a way to be linked with them would be great! I will absolutely do this. Giving the step by step procedure really helps, by the way! Thank you.
Let me know how you get on :)
Came here from Sean Donahues blog and very glad I did. Wrote a piece on Wikipedia years ago on virtual assistants and you’ve reminded me to go back there. Thanks guys, great information.
Thanks :) Glad you liked it!
The idea is not bad and will work but it requires I guess a lot of work but I know if we made to get a backlink from Wikipedia it could simply boost our rankings.
I love the idea. Thanks for sharing! I will try it for sure.
It’s pretty straight forward to do if you already have good content on your site.
Hi Matthew,
Great article, never really thought about fixing dead links as a strategy!
2 questions for you if that’s okay?
1. You mentioned that Wikipedia provide a list of articles queued up for improvements but where would this be found as I can’t find it!
2. After making a few edits of articles how would I know when/if I’m considered a legit contributor on the site?
Hello,
This is as easy as it can get to have a wikipedia link.
This will be a slap for those who sell wikipedia link from 100 bucks or more.
In past, I did something similar but it didn’t work. But I will try this again and see if I can get some strong links to sites stuck at bottom of page 1.
Thanks for sharing this Matthew.
Priyank.
Well most people don’t spend time fixing up a few articles with their account first before going for the money shot
This is brilliant! Your straightforward, no nonsense advice really is top class. You truly add 200% value to every piece of content you produce. Thanks for sharing!!
– Ricky
Thanks Ricky :) Glad you liked it!
Nice find Matthew :) Does this method work for medium sized (20-50 pages of content) affiliate or adsense sites?
It works for any site that adds value to the Wikipedia experience
Sweet, superb & easy! Strange as it may seem but sometimes one of the simplest result yield good results.
Very nice post.
I live my life by the KISS rule, keep it simple stupid
This is too rad.
Haha good luck =D
Wow! That was a really good post. I’m going to try this out soon. The good think about Wikipedia is that it not only sends that authority juice but also sends valuable traffic. That is why it is so important to put in relevant links to relevant pages only.
Let me know how you get on Wolston!
Hi Matt,
All OBL’s on wikipedia are now nofollow. Does the crazy high authority carry enough weight in the serps? Worth testing.
Of course, for diversification and authority, you can’t get better than the pedia! ;)
Yes – I stopped caring about follow/nofollow years ago
Why did you stop caring about dofollow/nofollow? I was led to believe that means a lot for SEO rankings
Makes for a more natural profile
Yeah, pretty much what Matt said. Do/Not Follow used to play a large part in SEO several years ago, but variations work better at this point (along the lines of semantic vs extensional definitions/keywords).
It’s all about creating an organic profile… you need to mix it up while still providing real value. (As determined by Google.)
Best, Chris.
Thanks Matt! Great strategy and best of all, you give it away for free! Thats why I hang out on your blog everyday!
Knew I had read about it this somewhere but couldn’t remember where. Have evernoted it now! Cheers :)
Haha glad it helped you Munir =D
Outstanding info!
Thanks Curtis!
Thanks Matt! That was too easy! Just added my link as an external link reference to Wikipedia, I hope it gets approved!
Good luck :) Follow the advice and you’ll be fine – the fact you have already submitted the link means you didn’t follow the advice though ;)
l***
If we have a site about a lot of different things will it hurt our rank? For example, if we have a blog about movies but then write an article about something completely different(like history or politics or something) just to get a backlink from wikipedia, will it hurt our rank?
I wouldn’t do it just to get a link from wikipedia
Will it hurt to do it though? Does having random content hurt?
I don’t see the benefit in doing it
But no, it won’t hurt. High PR backlinks always help, especially if you’re pushing them to secondary pages (which Google sees as “more organic”).
Another terrific post Matt~
Yours is one of the -very- few blogs I read religiously
In fact, I’ve added you as one of only 3 links on my IM blog – Kim Roach’s “Buzzblogger” and Stuart Walker’s “NicheHacks” are two others (take a peek if you have a few mins., I try to post only similarly high-quality info).
Thanks again – now it’s off to Wikipedia!
Robert
Thanks for the link much appreciated :) Good luck with your blog!
Nice article Matt. Having a look at some potential sources now where I can plant some links.
What I’m not seeing though is how i find where dead links are on the page?
WikiGrabber says ‘dead link’ but when I click on it I just end up on the page with no idea where that dead link is.
Thanks for linking to me as well Robert…appreciated!
Press ctrl+f to open up a find box and type in either citation needed or dead link to find where they are.
Stuart you did not read the full length . Type Ctrl+F to find ‘dead link’ .
Thanks!
I did not know this. Thanks for taking the time Matthew.
No worrys glad to help Rocco :)
Great tutorial Matt, will do this on a daily basis till it’s ineffective with seo!
I think this will be a golden goose!
No hate, but this method gonna be dead so fast, once you reveal it, there will be tons of SEO’s adding their stuff on Wikipedia and they will begin to fight it. I don’t judge or hate on tutorial, but that’s my prediction what’s gonna happen, based on previous examples of any ‘big method’
Then you better get cracking :)
epic! good stuff as usual Matt! For all niche site owners this is key, as getting related backlinks to specific niche sites can be close to impossible, but with wikipedia added to the list, you can now get more specific links than ever before.
No worrys thanks for reading Jake!
Hey Matt you just made my day,
I have no words to offer you. Simply saying thanks a lot. We all know that wiki links are very much valuable for any site. I tried to get wiki links before but failed. I lost all hopes of wiki links. WikiGrabber showed me a new hope. It’s 1:30 AM, so I am going to my bed. Tomorrow I will definitely earn some wiki links using WikiGrabber.
Hahaha get yourself some sleep then attack it tomorrow :)
Very useful, thanks, your tips help out a lot!
No worrys thanks James :)
As innocent as Snow White in a white hat… :)
Anyway, will add WikiGrabber to my arsenal. Thanks, Matt!
Hahaha she isn’t innocent :P
As i know Wikipedia Backlinks are very powerful. Though I have never try it before but after read your post I am interested to try it for my blog and business site.
Thanks for sharing.
Good luck :)
Thanks For you best complement :)
Another great link building tutorial. Thanks Matthew. You rock :D
Thanks for your kind words :)
You are welcome :D
Thanks dude, this is so powerful. I just wish WikiGrabber would also work with other languages.
Send the owner a message :)
Extremely valuable advice! I’m just getting started with SEO and your blog has been a tremendous help.
Thanks Danic :)
That’s an awesome tool! Thanks for posting, going to start using this first thing in the morning :)
Also a good way of finding things to write about like you suggested – by searching for things in our niche that need citations/ replaced links.
Great stuff as always :)
Thanks Catalin!
Incredibly good information. Citation or broken link — is one better than the other?
Thanks. Your website is golden.
No either will do the trick :)
This is interesting. I had previously thought Wikipedia links were too hard to get because there are two types of links there, and the ones that pass link juice require your account to be in incredibly good standing, whereas the ones you talked about getting in this article are not really worth it. Seems what I read was wrong?
Anyway, wiki grabber looks awesome. If I get the opportunity I’ll swing a link your way and let you know
Every link is worth getting from Wikipedia :) Thanks Dom!
I’ve got 2 wikipedia links on 2 of my sites, they haven’t helped with ranking except I get the odd visitors every now and then. These links were verified by the admin. So I wouldn’t get too excited about this :)
I put my VA on this and will be hammering it! Thank You!
Thats the way to do it =D
You mention fixing up a few other citations/dead links and pointing to non-owned sites first. Do you think it matters how fast you do that? I.e., should we space it over a few days first before linking to our own site?
Not really I would just spend an hour or so doing it, wait for them approved then do the same again but this time one of them as your links :)
Nice context on wikipedia link building. Moreover, this time you have suggested a free tool “Wikigrabber” to use in handy with. Happy for that. :)
No worrys hope it helps!
ok, but what if the dead backlink was found is into the References section? just edit/remove it with my own link as you’ve mentioned?
Yup :)
What is so good about wikipedia links? I mean all you get is a no follow link right?
Do follow< no follow from what I've read.
Would you care to elaborate on this Matt?
Thanks!
I don’t care about nofollow or dofollow personally
It’s all good. The algorithm is moving towards a more organic profile (which is what your’re referencing above).
Peer groups have been displaced by semantic search…
The dofollow contextual backlinks definitely make the difference between ranking on the 1st page or not – I’ve studied the backlinks of the top ranking sites in my niche and their dofollow links are definitely the reason for them ranking very highly.
Something else I’ve observed is that Google seems to treat all comments links as nofollow despite your plugin might show those links as dofollow – I became so disappointed after finding this out because I had spent tonnes of time on writing decent comments on dofollow blogs. So there you have it – it seems lots of bloggers just take each others’ words for it without testing them themselves, no disregard to Matthew btw as his blog is a helpful one overall and his posts are worth reading!
Another nice quality tutorial, well done Matt!
I definitely will use this method but need to have quality articles before we do the linking. And I am thinking should we produce content based on the dead link or citation need.
You’ve got it in one :)
I have been lucky while getting link and more important traffic from Wikipedia pages. Like for one of my targeted KY a Wikipedia page is at no 3. So I wrote a 2500 quality content and 25 un-indexed images and then submitted that on Wiki and in a week it as approved…
Beside nice tool grabber. I edited one more link and chances are that it will be approved after a manual check…
Thanks for sharing Wiki Grabber Matthew
I don’t think that has anything to do with luck, it’s all down to the time you took to prepare :)
Yeah the blog post look me like 20+ days. Wrote 50% of the content myself and gathered all the images… I did kicked my *** for that Wiki link and there was no way that my post couldn’t get disapproved after all that work…
Exactly – it was all down to your own hard work :)
Great post. I’d like to know if WikiGrabber works for italian language.
It doesn’t sorry, but who knows they might expand it in the future!
gee thanks just used it and loved it, very easy
No worrys :)
what about no-follow links:)? does these links really do something ? I know another way to get wikipedia backlinks,I did it 10 days ago,It was indexed in 3 days by google ,but today is 11th day still nothing…Link doesn’t appeared in ahrefs or majesticseo,but webmaster tools says that wikipedia links me…
I don’t care about nofollow/dofollow
Oooh!, Nice find Matt!
Nice step by step article too.
i need to dig out and update my old wiki video submitter tool and combo with this :)
Sounds awesome let me know if you do :)
Hmm, I think I forgot to comment on this one.
See, that’s the downside of poor wi-fi in hotels. x_x
I also use an add-on for Chrome and Firefox Mozilla called “Check my links” when I’m investigating the dead (haha) / broken links. That works for BLB in general, but this looks like a great tool for Wikipedia alone. :D
Hahaha yeah hotel WiFi ALWAYS sucks!
Hi Matthew,
What a brilliantly creative article. I love it.
Give before you receive. Be patient. Like you said, why go for the Money Shot? You’re bound to fall flat on your face because being greedy or desperate simply repels success.
Help out the Wiki Community, do a good turn and you’ll set yourself up to receive a nice, juicy link in through one of the world’s authority sites.
Always think about setting the table before you want to feast, right?
Excellent Matthew. I hadn’t come across this approach before; super creative link building here.
I’ll tweet in a bit.
Enjoy your weekend.
Ryan
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for your kind words – basically don’t try and f*ck on your first date :)
wow nice article i love it good idea
Hope it helps you get some good linkys!
Hi,
this method is explained for English version of wikipedia. Is possible to use it for Italian version? I tried without results.
Thanks
I don’t think so right now =/
Great article Matt. I found this especially useful for coming up with content ideas to build for deadlinks.
No worrys :)
Good trick! However we need to be more smart and ethical while editing any article on Wikipedia! Great Resource!
Thanks Sagar :)
Great info Matt, just wondering would this work for a link to a youtube video demonstrating eg. “social bookmarking” but the video also promotes an affiliate product?
Give it a try
Hi Matthew. This is really interesting, I would never have deemed Wikipedia to be such a sought after link. I guess I have always been led to believe that it is a little unreliable and sketchy! MAybe I need to rethink!
It’s a great link to have :)
Hey Mattew really Great Informative article. Yes No doubt Wikipedia is one the most authoritative site and grabing a backlink for it will boost our ranking to a great extent.
I have a small question hope you can awnser I sawed many links in wiki are no-follow so getting a no-follow link from it. Will it helpful much for us ?
I don’t really care about nofollow/dofollow personally
Hi.
Thanks for a really great post. I though have two points of view on this article.
1. is that I am actually really happy about wikipedia. From a personal and ideologic perspective I like the Idea about free flow of information. Though wikipedia is going to get corruptet this way, misused for linkbuilding – not for bringing good sources, but with a second agenda. This will distort the quality of wikipidia
2. I’m a professional – I live from SEO, and I can’t give any guarantee I won’t use the above described tactics. Actually – I have allready done it :-)
Again – thanks for a great article
Hi,
1) Welcome to planet earth – that’s how most things in life work :)
2) Case in point ^^
Great guide for getting some valuable Wikipedia links. I have edited a few articles and it actually has driven me daily traffic :D
Thanks!
Great to hear!!
Hi Matt
I need your help and want to chat with you. Send me an mail pls when you are available.
Thanks
Frank
Drop me a mail at https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/contact-me/
Hi Mattew,
Thanks for sharing this new tool – WikiGrabber. Anything that would make for easy grabbing of valuable link is welcoming. You have provided an awesome tutorial on how to use this tool.
I guess its time to really try and see how it works! Getting a Wikipedia backlink would be exciting for search engine ranking!
This post was found in kingged where it was shared and upvoted.
Thanks for the share Sunday =D
Hi Matt.
Really A Nice Guide. I Give Some Buck To Someone For This.
But Now I Do It From My Own Side.
Thanks a Lot.
Who were you outsourcing it to?
Matthew,
Wow, what a great tool for getting backlinks!
Thank you, for sharing
Tracy
No worrys :)
Hi Mathew!
I was just searching for easiest ways to get backlinks from wikipedia and I found your article.
I must say that I am a casual visitor of your blog and your writing skills are just amazing.
After reading this article, I am sure I can get a handful of wealthy backlinks from Wikipedia and some other sites.
Thanks for sharing ;)
Thanks :) I’m glad to be of service let me know if you have any questions!
Haha, that WikiGrabber really is a gold nugget. Would have never thought of searching for a free tool to find 404 on Wikipedia by keyword. They should charge some serious money for that cause they could… :P
This is awesome for client work as they are mostly not in the killer niches so if you create some awesome piece of content and place that link it will actually stay. Not sure about something like Search Engine Optimization though…
Thanks for the gold nugget, keep up the fantastic work!
Greetings from Innsbruck,
Alex
Yeah it’s a great service I have to agree!
Great article, I am finding a guide to build a back link from wikipedia to my site. By chance, I get this article at your site.
Thanks a lot,
Then I hope it helps you :)
So I tried this with some of my client’s sites and my links were immediately deleted by the moderators — within 5 minutes each link was gone. Before adding my own links I spent a few days updating other articles, but that didn’t help my links stay up. The problem that I ran into was that the links to my clients were blog posts and although they are completely factual and relevant to the article I was updating they were still deleted. It seems that the moderators won’t allow any blogs. My clients are all attorneys, and since the link is to their websites the moderators are seeing them as self promotional. Any ideas to get around this?
Without seeing actual examples it is hard to feedback on =\
Hi Matthew,
wikigrabber is quite cool. Thanks for sharing it.
No worrys :)
Hi Matthew, would you mind to share which plugin are you using for the “please share” section at the end of each post? Any recommendation for “free” ones please?
And how about the “Connect With Me…” plugin? Thanks in advance.
That is just hard coded into my themes single.php file
Hi Dear,
I really enjoyed to read this post.
First time I read entire post carefully because it is my needed to get back-links from Wikipedia.
This is just little hard work but most useful tricks.
Any way thanks for sharing such nice information with us.
Areehsa Noor
Hope it helps your sites out!
Hello Matt!
how i know that my link approve or not
Just check if its live
Waou! your post is so clear and great, it is an easy way to get a backlink from wikipedia. http://wikigrabber.com work for french website?thanks.
No worrys – not sure if you can do french sites though sorry
At first a lot thanks to Matthew.
I always afraid of wiki links. Whenever I tried to put a link into wiki but failed. Because they are not accepting my links easily. But you elaborate everything that I feel comfort about wiki links. How Can I Get more help for building wiki links for my sites?
Regards
If you just sign up to Wikipedia, edit an article with your link and thats it – you will never get a link approved
Hi Matthew,
Mate, you are an angel :)
Thanks a lot for this amazing post!!!
No worrys :)
Awesome tips buddy… I am going to try it. Hope i will get some backlinks
Good luck!
Well that was a really helpful and detailed post.
I really plan to try this think out but it will probably take a long time time.
Anyways has someone tried this thing out?
If it does work, then it’s worth spending the time!
Lets wait and see how my trial goes
Hello Matthew.
Nice Tips to get Wiki Back-link. I have been success to create Wiki links after follow your instruction.
Thanks a lot for your extra ordinary guideline :)
Awesome glad it helped you out!
thanks updating deadlink really works for me
Great to hear!
Wiki grabber is a Great tool
It is indeed :)
HI Matt,
After inserting the suggested link with updated title, should I change the dead link citation and date retrieved?
Thanks!
Yes indeedy :)
Thanks Matt,
My link is still live for two days now, I updated the retrieved date and removed the dead link status. So far so good.
Hopefully my link will not be removed.
Nice job :)
Its a great method to get a high quality links. I really appreciate your great worked.
Glad it helped :)
I think these are best strategies to make backlink in fast and proper way, thanks for shearing such a wonderful article with us.
No problem!
Nice information. After reading you article I add a link to Wikipedia and I hope they will accept my link. Thank you.
Good luck =D
It is safe to create backlink on Wikipedia, by this technique ?
Yup
You’re a sick, sad bunch of spamming b*******. Fortunately, we’re onto you.
Said every website moderator ever =D
Nice post & loved it from the bottom of my heart.:)
Thanks =D
Great strategy to try
i will do it
thanks
No problem :)
Awesome many thanks
Glad to be of service!
Is that important to have a backlink from wikipedia ?
It sure helps!
Hi Matt,
I recently used this technique solely because of this article, however, my website was then immediately put on wikipedia’s spam blacklist for ‘not linking to encyclopedic content’. Since 99% of Wikipedia’s articles don’t link to ‘encyclopedic content’ I thought this was odd, but also incredibly unfair, especially given my link was helpful and relevant. I have tried to contest, but it’s being rejected, and I’m left with the horrible feeling of having to live with it.
My question to you is, does being on wikipedia’s blacklist matter in terms of seo etc? Could your reputation be harmed? Since this could happen to you just as easily as me, especially if a marketing competitor had the hump with you, or a wiki admin was feeling cocky, do you think this matters?
I know I can change my url, which will affect seo, but since traffic is largely social media driven, it’s not the end of the world, but has really knocked me and my confidence for 6.
I’m incredibly worried about this now! Please help!
Thanks,
Matt.
Yes it is important that you create content to a high standard and the way I measure that is to look at what other sites are already linked from the page I’m trying to obtain a link from.
Look at the link I got from them for some ultimate irony – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/Dead_link_spamming#Background
Wow, your thecnics mezmerize me. I am currently searching on Google how to write a new wiki page.
I still did not find out how to write a new wiki page. But you technics, even better than what I am aiming for.
I will try soon. sorry for bad english.
I hope this is easier for you :)
Hey Matthew,
This is seriously one of the best and the easiest way to link backlinks on Wikipedia. I’m surely going to try this right away.
Thanks a lot for this guide. Kudos from India :)
I hope it helps you get a link :)
Thanks Matt Sir For This Sensational Post… I Just Loved The Wiki Method To Get Backlinks ! :) And Thanks For Introducing WikiGrabber Tool Too :)
No problem Patrick :)
This is one of the greatest way to get backlink. It is very helpful for me as a beginner
I wish you luck in your Wikipedia link hunting :)
Hiii Matthew
I tried this method and i created a wiki link but not able to see in ahref or in web master tools.. When i check wiki page my link is available in wiki page. it means i got wiki link or not ?
Yes its just that Ahrefs and WMT aren’t reporting it yet, has the page been cached in Google with your link?
I still confuse, how to create the backlink related to my website. I’m afraid if the moderator will block my account later.
Thank you for your good tips.
That’s why you have to spend time making sure you add quality content
With proper knowledge of wikipedia edit guidelines and understanding the concept of replacing dead links with new quality links of your own can give you free links from wikipedia. Many forums have thread selling this wikipedia links. Concept of Wikipedia links are changing from Free to Commercial purpose now.
Have anyone came across this Wiki Connect website? This bunch of people claim themselves to be Wikipedia Experts and sell this wikipedia link services. But the fact lies that they read article like this and sell such services.
Yeah that happens quite often
So I checked on a wikipedia link search, and there are NO articles that link to matthewwoodward.co.uk APART from admin type pages talking about your article influencing seo spam (ironically getting you backlinks).
So it would appear that you have actually never used this method yourself.
Hi John,
Yes I got the ironic link from them haha but please read this https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/experiments/google-webmaster-guidelines-experiment/
i have tried this method like year ago, it never worked. Ny question is to you how many back links have you made for your blog so far?
I have made zero in total – https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/experiments/google-webmaster-guidelines-experiment/
You’re funny matthew brother, Yesterday i found one broken link manually and edited, after 4 hours somebody re-edited it again.
hahahaha that’s unlucky
After a month of ecperimen, I have tried hard to get backlinks from wikipedia but i failed to get backlinks from wikipedia for my site. However i was able to harvest one backlink for my friends blogger which has been active for more than 19 days. i did my research why wikipedia bot is not accepting my link then i found my link has been marked as spammed. hehehe
Then I would look to improve on the content you linked to from Wikipedia
Hi Matthew. What about adding content and a link to a relevant page or creating a brand new page all together? Do you have any suggestions or tips on that?
If you have a page that is already existing that matches the criteria you can use that
Can we put do follow backlinks in wikipedia??
No you can’t
Really useful article. Thanks :)
Glad to be of service :)
Thank you so much! Mr. Matthew.
This article is very usefull!
No problem Albert :)
Hi Matt.
Really A Nice Guide. I Give Some Buck To Someone For This.
But Now I Do It From My Own Side.
Thanks a Lot.
Thanks :)
Thanks for the good stuff. This is an awesome post with lots of points one need to keep in mind for improving quality back link
Did you manage to get one from Wikipedia?
Really? This is the worst kind of “gaming the system” behavior. It also constitutes spamming links which is UNACCEPTABLE on Wikipedia. You should have thought twice before posting this. Now thanks to this we’ll have to blacklist tons of links. “We” because I’m a Wikipedia contributor and I usually revert vandalism. Things such as this are often illegal. I shall sue you for this.
Wahahahahahahahahahahahahaha /roflcopters
Lucas, chief reddit mod, chief wiki contributor, chief fedora :)
For real? It’s scary someone like that has so much responsability
thanks for this post.this will be a nice chance to get backlinks
No problem :)
Hello sir, I just make my website, still i dont have any back link :(
what can i do now ?
Can you please tell me ?
thank you.
I would probably start with some backlinks then
Can you tell me, how to make backlinks, please ?
Search the blog
Really helpful, Thanks for this awesome post. It helped me to get link outside from Wikipedia too.
Thanks Imran!
thanks alot. been struggling for this for a while noow.
No problem :)
Awesome article. Really very very helpful!
ROFL. Great advice for getting blocked by Wikipedia admins, I know of about a dozen Wikipedia accounts that have been caught doing this in the past few months, resulting in blocked accounts and/or blacklisted websites. Deadlink spamming CAN result in your link being blacklisted — which will hurt your SEO, because all search engines scan Wikipedia’s blacklist and rank accordingly. Wiki’s blacklist is like a roach motel: you can get in, but not out. Administrators will NOT consider requests to de-list from site owners. Ask yourself: is it worth that risk to break Wikipedia’s rules that forbid using it for promotional or publicity purposes?
Spoken like a true Wikipedia moderator :) Of course some people get caught, that is the cat and mouse nature of the SEO game that we play every single day! Plus the blacklist is not used anywhere EXCEPT Wikipedia. Even if it was used anywhere else like a ranking factor in Google for example, people would just build bots that blacklists their competitors – so which every way you cut it is irrelevant.
WikiGrabber is a pretty cool tool. I gave it a try, but I still prefer to use a Google search to find Wikipedia link opportunities, because Google’s SERPs give me results with more relevant pages (since that’s Google’s bread and butter).
Here are the Google alternatives I use:
site:wikipedia.org [keyword phrase] “dead link”
site:wikipedia.org [keyword phrase] “citation needed”
Thanks for the extra tips :)
Awesome Trick! Thanks :)
How to find the broken link in the Arabic Wikipedia version ?
Tweak the Google searches a commenter above posted
Wikipedia and edit the information – because of that and the sheer size of the site you can find a lot of broken links or information
You sure can :)
i think this is a great tip. but i don’t believe it. anyway thanks for nice sharing.
Haha no problem :)
Thanks for this awesome guide. Can you provide us with the content of the mail which we should forward to the sites?
Read the post
quality backlinks works a lot on rank and many more factors . getting a backlink from wikipedia would be much profitable .
It would indeedy :)
Thanks for the good stuff. This is an awesome post with lots of points one need to keep in mind for improving quality back link
I hope you put it to good use!
Hi Matthew Love the post but there’s one thing I don’t understand. The Wikipedia guidelines for citations say no blogs, so how am I to get a citation to one of my posts, even if it super-relevant, well-researched etc??
You could create a PDF on your site with an internal link back to your home page, then link to the PDF from Wikipedia
Thanks for your reply. Sorry to be so dumb, Matthew, but could you explain, or point me to some training as to how to create a PDF on my site? (In very simple terms because I am a total novice) Many thanks.
Create your article in Word with links, save as pdf
Thanks a lot Mathew! Point taken and I’ll do exactly as you recommended – just post a couple of separated pages (to build up some reputation) and then will try to complete the top wiki page at the SERPs with my content plus my link. Hope it works!
Cheers!
Adam
Wow decent tips you’ve written there mate. Thanks alot, been doing wikipedia, but now I can go on different sites as well with the same dead link.
No problem :)
i think this is a great tip. but i don’t believe it. anyway thanks for nice sharing.
No problem :)
Very Nice Article… It will help me get visitors from wiki
I hope so!
really nice and actionable guide to built a valuable backlink from Wikipedia. I made certain useful backlinks this way.
Remember, not only opt to build backlink but be a regular participant.
Thanks Samin :)
Mathew,
It’s an excellent article. It’s always a dream to have a backlink from WikiPedia and you really made it easy and simple for us although some donkey work but to have a link from WikiPedia cannot be more easy than this.
Thanks again
No problem Shahzad let us know how you get on :)
This is a great article with no-fluff actionable content! Thanks Matthew for the quality info here. I plan to weave wikipedia into my backlinking arsenal starting today!
No problem Jeremy :)
Have a backlink from Wikipedia is really juicy but the toughest task to do.
Woodward make this job easy for us. Thanks a lot for that
No problemo Farooq :)
Man, you get rocked. heads off to you.
I always thought that it is impossible to get backlink from Wikipedia. Because of long and high quality contents. but this method rocks man.
Thanks Mudasir :)
Hi Matthew !!!
Really an Informative post. Thanks for sharing this awesome approach to getting backlinks from wikipedia.
But now it seems so easy to grab few backlinks from wikipedia.
Thanks and keep writing
No problem thanks :)
Just focus on OnPage SEO and avoid building link will get you higher rankings in Google SERP, Try it.
Thanks!
You mean like this https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/experiments/google-webmaster-guidelines-experiment/
Great info, Just came accros your site.
this was exacly what I was looking for!!!!
Thanks Matthew
Hi Matthew,
Your information is great for link building , I followed your strategy and I created a link in Wikipedia for broken link but after few days Wikipedia removed that link as spam. Now What i will do ? Can you suggested me?
If it was for the site linked in your name I can see why
Hello… Matthew Woodward,
I followed your Instructions and i tried so many times to get bakclink from Wikipedia. I added my site in wikipedia. But not approved and removed my site after few days. Why my sites and links are removed. Please tell me.. I am waiting for your reply and how to get backlink permanently from wiki…
Which site are you trying to get a link for?
Thanks for the tips…going to experiment mine
No problem, please let us know how you get on!
I have never known that getting a backlink from top sites like wikipeadia will be this easy..I really appreciate.
No problem Lizzy :)
Matthew,
Fantastic article! Thanks for sharing the free tool WikiGrabber – you’re so resourceful!
Quick question…
Do you recommend creating an account using a different name to the one on a money site?
If the mods on Wikipedia see identical names on the Wiki account and the site I want to drop a link to won’t they be more likely to remove the link as spam? So should I use a different name when signing up with Wikipedia?
Yes be different
i’ve tried too many times to get backlinks from wikipedia but failed each time i will use your tutorial let see what happen, this is my wish to get only one backlink from wikipedia in my life :(
For which website?
Thanks for this help on getting wiki links. I like your clear style of no-nonsense writing too, similar to what I’m trying to do on my domaining for beginners blog. bookmarked forever.
Thanks Steve – hope to see you back here :)
very good
Thanks :)
Great way to get backlinks!
Simple :)
Nice post is this. Your post about easy wikipedia link building is interesting.
Thank you.
I hope you put it to good use :)
I honestly think that this is a spectacular blog you got there!
Thanks :) There is still a lot to improve but im working on it
Thanks for this great post on off page optimisation
No problem Rupesh :)
best article man all the best my frend
Thanks :)
sir wonderful article full of knowledge. please tell me one thing if i have a relevant page of dead link then i have to just copy paste my website link to that place. I am waiting for your response sir. Thanku very much :)
Just read the article
Great strategy! But we should use that method with care, just for not spoiling the might Wikipedia.
I agree :)
Really good & informative post , I am try but still did not find out how to write a new wiki page. Please help me .
I haven’t ever done that myself sorry
This article very useful, i got lot of information about dead links, some other easy techniques for generate site backlinks. Thanks
No problem Mani!
hey Math i am very grateful to you that i found your website i have a new website i dont know much about seo and wordpress how to configure but m learning slowly i dont have any traffic on my site 1 organic search in a week probably 10 users from facebook and 50pageviews daily dats all m frustrated and i tried that wikipedia link but they rejected me thrice i dont know what mistake m doing can you help any ideas for traffic and backlink
I can probably guess that while you are focused on backlinks, you haven’t taken care of basics like optin forms/building a list from that traffic?
Thank you very much for such a wonderful and descriptive article it helps me a lot.
your article appears on 1st position and i was so satisfied that i need not to move to any other post.
thanks again.
No problem glad it answered your questions!
After reading this article. I have boosted myself for a Wikipedia link and could successfully grab one, which moved my article to the first page.
Thanks Matthew Woodward
Awesome sauce Rahul glad it helped you out!
Nice post sir.Backlink from Wikipedia is nofollow or dofollow ?
They are nofollow, I didn’t know people still cared about that =\
hie, does this strategy still work? Please do reply. A wonderful article indeed.
Yes :)
I’ve never heard of linking to Wikipedia. I like how easy it is to do, and helping them out in the process. Thanks for this step-by-step tutorial. On my to-do list!
This is about getting Wikipedia to link to you!
yahooooo at last I create a wiki backlink for my website. great great artical it is thanx u so much.
Good job =D
Thanks for sharing this is very useful post. I have lots of post how to get backlink form Wikipedia. your post have detailed explained information. Your blog for very nice for SEO tips.
No problem Deepa :)
Wikipedia don’t like nichesite, athought content very good ! I try more time but it not accept by Wikipedia
How about instead of getting the link directly to your site, get a wikipedia link to a link that is already pointing to your site in a tiered fashion
thank you for this article…….. more helpful ……..
No problem :)
Thanks Matthew for this wonderful post… the BEST strategy..
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Sir, wikipedia remove my site link.
but why?
What did you try to link to?
Excellent article. Will definitely give it a try.
No problem :)
Awesome article, And There is also a extension in chrome name “Check My Links” to find broken link on a page.
Thanks for the extra tip :)
wikigrabber is down, any alternative for that?
Its working here?
Great post but in most cases after you rework a dead link on wikipedia.org and place your own link, the super admins will delete this link!
Yeah thats why you need to be smart about it :)
nice article! but how to get more links from wiki?
You can lead a horse to water…
Awesome article. to much help :)
Thanks Faisal!
Hi Matt.
Really A Nice Guide. I Give Some Buck To Someone For This..
But Now I Do It From My Own Side.
Thanks a Lot…
No problem :)
Seems great helpful. I’m gonna try definitely. :)
But Is it legal to change Wikipedia for such personal purpose?
Legal where?
Good tutorial, Matthew! I will add WikiGrabber to my useful tools!
Thanks for sharing this with us!
Khaled
No problem :)
Wiki links look like a good way to actually improve Wikipedia, I don’t see anything wrong with that. Actually got my first link and waiting for admins to delete it :D or not.
Hahaha good luck Mina, let us know how it goes!
I really enjoy you article it was very informative point to point content .I will definitely try this method .can I hire writer for editing citation needed links?
You can pretty much hire people to do anything
Great tips just hearing about wikigrabber free tool. thanks for that resource.am to linkbuilding stuffs i will say its totally tedious andtime consuming,even most times you don’t get a single reply.
No problem Ben :)
This is brilliant! Your straightforward, no nonsense advice really is top class. You truly add 200% value to every piece of content you produce. Thanks for sharing!!
– Punit mahajan
No problem Punit :)
I wonder how many people actually click on the reference links. I for one probably end up on Wikipedia each day but the main content is enough for me
You can get a bunch of traffic depending on the page!
Tnx man, great tut.!
Tnx For Share!
No problem!
Thanks man this is great.. going to try this.
No problem Belal!
great post thx
No problem :)
nice article! How much backlink we can generate in a month?
As many as you want, but don’t get caught!
Nice Tips to get Wiki Back-link. I have been success to create Wiki links after follow your instruction.
thanks for sharing :)
No problem :)
Thank You So Much Mathew :) You just made my day, Always sharing amazing and helpful stuff. Thanks Again.
No problem Abdul :)
This is an awesome tutorial Matt. I tried this technique and gained a no follow link from Wikipedia. It tutorial really helped. thanks a lot!
No problem Mahesh :)
I tried to find dead links, but nothing found.
Keep looking my friend, there are plenty out there!
This is one of the best advice i have got while doing link building. Back link from Wikipedia would surely improve site’s ranking.
Thanks Matthew such a lovely in depth instruction.
No problem Tanvir :)
Nice Post . However if there is a video it could be a great help
It is pretty straight forward!
Nice..I felt happy to read this article. and i am feeling like i got a power. But before doing anything tell me. what is means by quality post, what it should be and how we can select post to get link in wikipedia. ?
Well, take a look at what is already been linked to and you will get an idea of the standards you need to meet!
The charges me to make a wikipedia. ?
Related to Dedicated Servers
Try to do it and failed.
I await your email.
I have no idea what you just said =/
What is this, the links are nofollow so no value for seo. Is that not true?
I stopped caring about nofollow/dofollow years ago, you should too!
wao …… how much this was important i cannot describe it… thank you so much for this article because it give me a new idea to boost my business thanks again
No problem Avtar!
thanks to information
No problem Rahul :)
Hello! greetings from Argentina. Excellent tutorial! but the link ends up being NOFOLLOW. Did I do something wrong ? I am looking forward to your response.
All links from Wikipedia are nofollow
Thank you. Great post. I just tried it and so far I haven’t been flagged.
Just another comment of thanks…I am still alive and links seem to be sticking!
Good job Clint =D
The trouble with getting Wiki links is your 90% likely to be considered as an opportunist pointing back to any money site , and as Most wiki links are no follow your likely to not get anything out of pointing at a relevant link at a blogpost containing links to your site . I got lucky with a site that was a historic hotel so I could get a link in references that was approved as the site luckily head a historical page , but you’ll waste hours on this for nothing in most cases so I wouldn’t bother if you’re a provider of SEO…. worth a go if it’s your own site
Yes most people take shortcuts here and throw together some useless content expecting to get approved, its important that you take great care and consideration for the quality of what you are trying to get linked.
Very valuable post . I got useful information from this article. Thank you very much Mathew.
No problem Rvlnsv!
Simply, great piece of advice.
Let me know how it works out for you Himanshu!
hi mathew,
awesome piece of content man
i love your writing style.
can i get an opportunity to write a guest post for your blog ?
thank you
Hey Rahul,
Thanks very much, please see https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/write-for-us/
Thanks a ton for thsi valuable information will surely gonna try this.
I hope it works out for you Ibrahim!
Thanks Matt. Although this post is so old, but it still is necessary for me to reference. I tried submit link of my website and no success. Now, I will create an account, and follow your post to do again.
I hope it sticks for you Xem!
hi just created a wiki backlink with External links edit and links works is it removed after review or ?
Just check back in a couple of weeks to see if it stuck or not
Hi there,
I found a dead link on a related wiki and am going to create the content for the replacement on my blog. The issue is when i analyse the url on ahrefs I find over 2.5 billion backlinks on the existing wiki.
Now how on earth am I going to filter the backlinks owner sites for an outreach effort. It is humanly undoable to reach out to 2.5 billion website owners.
Pls suggest a drill down method to filter the backlinks.
thanks
I think you are looking at the domain level rather than the page level
Hi Matthew,
You are right..I was looking into the root domain stats..Unfortunately the page domain stats has just 1 backlink from a German domain.
It ofcourse has a global rank of 14 and a Domain Rating of 89.
Do you recommend the same broken wiki link building strategy for this and if so do I follow the same as explained in this topic.
thanks and looking forward to your inputs.
Nabarun
Yes, a link from wikipedia is still a link from wikipedia :)
Hi ! I am new in SEO, for get a quality backlink from Wikipedia can I do the following steps to get backlink.
1- Submit a new article related to my niche.
2- submit round about 3 article.
3- Edit the article related to my niche & find broken links and PR t my site link.
Are this is right.
You just need to do as the tutorial tells you to do
Great information. I am going to try this.
Let us know how you get on Vick!
Thank you for the trick and sharing this article.
No problem Anurag :)
Very nice article, I have been through the process and looks fairly straight forward. Great Work :-0
No problem Graham, let us know how you get on with it!
I never believed in the so called SEO gurus until I stumbled upon this blog Mat. Excellent read, easy and simple to implement and to top it up, FREE.
Keep up the good work bro! This is really NO NONSENSE SEO. Count me a lifetime fan.
Cheers!
Thanks Pesakao, I’m glad you found it useful :)
really awesome Its Really works thanks for sharing this such a great info
Thanks Piyush!
Hi Matthew
when i try and edit anything in the references section all i get is this:
==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}
in the editor
any ideas what i’m doing wrong?
Do you have a screenshot?
http://i.imgur.com/RueRLu3.png
all other sections can be editing fine, apart from the reference section, which is where i am finding most of the deadlinks are located
wikipedia link are nofollow, it’s just a waste.. instead of wiki links, guest blogging method is the best
You’ve got a lot to learn my friend :) I stopped caring about nofollow/dofollow many years ago, I recommend you do the same :)
Really like this post when I’m searching for the Backlinks for my site. Can you tell me how can I get relevant backlinks for my website.
Sure take a look at https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/tag/link-building/
also you can find someone who creates Wiki articles or makes backlinks on Fiverr
get satisfying service
I saw online over a year ago someone had a desktop app that would help you find those dead links. Has anyone else seen that? I know the links from wikipedia are “no follow”. I do know the moderators are on top of things at Wikipedia.
I’ve never seen it myself but you don’t need a tool to do it really
Straight to the point , best and easiest way ,I definitely would do get some for my website
Kapow :)
congratulation buddy ! when i search for “how to make backlinks on wikipedia” i found you on the top . i read whole article carefully and it was really really helpful . m now going to build backlinks on wikipedia to get top pages in search engines like you .
Thanks :) Please let us know how you get on with the method!
Thanks a lot. I read it and going to make my wikipedia backlink. Thanks again.
No problem Shibam!
It works! Thank you
No problem Pulsa :)
Wow , I have been looking for this in years . But thanks for your article. let me get to it as you said
No problem Zik!
Matthew, it works in May 2016?
It sure does :)
Thanks! I’ll check it ;)
it works great.. many thanks
No problem Ruya!
That was perfect lesson i have learn from your post. I will use my SEO skill and follow your steps without using the tool. Thanks
Good job Bhaskar :)
Good Guide Wiki Link Creation, Thanks For Sharing !!!!!!!!!
Hope it does the job for you :)
Hello Matthew any More Ideas You Suggest me Online Shopping site Marketing
I have no idea what you are asking sorry
Quite Interesting Article. Worked for me, Thank you Matthew ;)
Good job Axit :)
Hi Matthew,
I read many articles about build link from Deadlink of Wiki. I wonder why there is no article about build normal link from Wiki. I mean we can update content, create new article then add link. Is it harder than from dead link Please advise for me.
Thank you very much!
Well that’s just a case of editing an existing page and adding huge chunks of value throughout
Quite Interesting,it works great…thanks for nice sharing.is there any more sites where i can create backlink
Here you go https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/tutorials/22-social-media-backlinks/
This is very helpful for me. I get a link from wiki after reading this post
Goooooood job!!!!
Thanks for your reply sir
No problem :)
it’s grat tnkes for your good tuto i will test it
No problem :)
Thank you for your excellent site
Very nice and helpful article :)
Thanks :)
No problem Mohit :)
This has given me a fantastic idea for some other project I’m working on.
Thanks for the great tip. :-) Now to test if it works for something else…looks to be very promising!
No problem Alex, please let us know how you get on
This case study added 1 more passionate Fan to your list.
Hat’s off for providing the all way clear information.
Thanks Fahed :)
Everything else is fine. But how to edit references in Wikipedia
Just click edit when you are logged in
Wao Wao great article I Just want to say thanks to you because I earned 500$ in a month by creating different backlinks.
That is awesome!
Are you using this process to sell links to others?
Very useful piece of information, thanks for sharing!
Great way to get a link from an authoritative site.
It is indeed – mwahahahaha!
Hey Matt,
That’s great, I was earlier using extensions to find broken links and screaming frog but this wikigrabber tools is seriously d*** good and useful.
Thanks again for this invaluable info.
Cheers,
Karan
No problem Karan, glad it helps you!
Hey Matt,
I used this tool and found a page with a paragraph which needed citation and that same info (more detailed) is on one of my articles. I am going to edit it and provide a link to my page.
Can you please tell me how can I do it, I mean how should I put my link? In the end of paragraph with an anchor text “reference” or something else.
Please care to reply this as I don’t wanna loose this link.
Thank you in advance.
Karan
Hey Karan,
Look at the page and look at how other links are shown/displayed – and then edit yours accordingly
i wil to try this informaition. thanks
No problem :)
i have question, to this footprint many of the wikipedia users, could not take our links, so what i can do to stay it at least 10 days, please suggest me some tips.
Make sure you are building a decent history with the account and not just using it to place your own links
This article has made it easy for me. Thanks for sharing.
No problem Keri!
Hey Mathew!
Wikigrabber is dead now. any other alternative to this ? I have been trying it since 3 days
Yes I see that, I have emailed the owner to see whats up
Wikigabber is online.
Superb! Easy to practice.
is this easy to get approved too? I mean the percentage for us to get approved from wikipedia?
If you try and take shortcuts/cheat the system – then its iit will be approved. If you follow this guide and add value, you’ll have no problem!
Yes I Tried and waiting for Approval
Good luck Asad!
thaks for sharing.. but how to cheat the system?
That is kind of the point of the article…
ahaha) funny)
I am very new to Blogging, my site The Tricks Peak Dot come has no back-links. After read this guide i am going to follow all tips mantion here. Hope it will work. Thanks matthewwoodward
Please let us know how you get on Nabeel
I have recently fixed a dead link on Wikipedia to point to a page on my website. Is there any way to tell whether or not the edit has been reviewed and accepted other than that my link is still on Wikipedia? Is thought maybe there was somewhere I could look which would tell me if the link had been reviewed and accepted?
I would check back in a few weeks to see if it has stuck, after that I wouldnt worry about it disappearing
thanks bro
No problem :)
Hi Matthew,
I just made a change in Wikipedia article by replacing a dead link with some other genuine and relevant link. I saved the changes and now when I open the same page from other location, I can see the updated link.
So, just wanted to know how can I see the updated link when it has not been approved by the editor.
Thanks
Rinkesh
Just wait a week or two and see if it sticks :)
i have just did it and its working thanks for sharing.
Awesome job Manoj!
Awesome trick to find high quality backlink, I’ll try it now
thank
No problem Aan!
I paid a guy to create a Wikipedia backlinks for my site; he did the job so mediocre that all the links are remove within 24 hours. Worst, he tried so many time in a spammy way, it appears my website is RED-FLAG by the editorial team.
Ahhh sorry to hear that, unfortunately people are lazy and like taking shortcuts :(
I appreciate your knowledge sharing on this topic. I will make good use of it for my business as well. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
Did you try and create a link?
how can i create page on wikipedia please??
Like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_create_a_page
Thats gold information! Thanks for sharing it. Just a quick question. I just created a shopify shop and im looking at building relevant wiki links like you explained. Just wondering in ecommerce sites the only way to get those links would be linking to a blog article in my ecommerce site? As would look spammy if i linked to the homepage with products etc?
thanks!
Yes it would be very difficult to get anything accepted otherwise
appreciate your knowledge sharing on this topic. I Try this but Wikipedia suspended my account. can you help why they did.
Can you show me what you linked to and detail how you aged your account?
i followed your post and did the same not sure why wikipedia blocked my account
Other than adding your own link to a wikipedia page, what else did you do?
Hi Mathew. That’s a great and informative article. I was wondering if you found your DA to be higher after getting a back link from Wikipedia ? As wiki grabber states on their page that “Many people don’t pursue backlinks from Wikipedia because they’re all “nofollow” links, which means search engines like Google don’t count them as positive trust signals for your website.” While it does go on to say that the link is beneficial in other ways , but would you consider the back link a strong one even if it’s a no follow ?
Honestly, I didn’t track that =/
No follow is pretty worthless.
What makes you think that?
Thanks for good content
No problem! It’s what I do :)
Hi,
I tried your method to get backlinks from Wikipedia. Wow, It’s amazing. Approved my page by wikipedia. Thanks for your great article.
Glad to hear it =D
This article is very informative. Here is the problem with Wikipedia backlinks. You spend your time adding pages or editing existent pages in order to add a link back to your site.
Indeed everything seems to be working fine. And then one day you check the link; it is removed. An editor has removed it.
That happens to me many times
Please step me through the process you are using to add links that are getting removed
Maybe I am missing something here but whilst this tutorial does tell you how to get links into Wiki, they are in fact No Follow and don’t generate any link juice. I’ve just checked several randomn Wiki pages and all external links and citations are no follow.
I’ll be delighted to be shown where I am wrong on this Matthew!
Yes they are indeed but I haven’t paid attention to nofollow tags for years
nice information, i am going to try this.
Let us know how you do!
Hi! It’s very nice article, you have written step by step guide to check the Wikipedia backlink
Hope you put it to good use Hiren!
It’s great to read this highly-thoughtful and straight -to -the-point content! I’ll surely give a shot at it. Good content always! Keep it up.
Please come back and let us know how you do!
One of my blog post is ranking on position 1 or 2 in Google search engine for the past 4 months. The Wikipedia related to this topic is required citations. I am afraid of making backlink of my this blog post on wiki, because wiki may spam my blog post. Should i make backlink from myself, from the same IP and same Laptop from which i run the website? One more thing my DA is 1 and PA for this blog post is also 1. I need answer!
Yes you can make the Wiki link yourself without any problem!
All OBL’s on wikipedia are now nofollow. Does the crazy high authority carry enough weight in the serps? Worth testing.
Of course, for diversification and authority, you can’t get better than the pedia! ;)
Yes it does indeed!
Awesome Tut. I will definitely try it.
Please let us know how you get on!
i want wikipedia backlink can you make for me plzzzzzzzzz :'(
Just read the guide
Honestly, it worked for me! Thanks a ton Matt :)
No problem and good job on making it stick!
i got it, thank you very much for your useful info
It’s what I do :)
Hey Matt! What a great articel once again!! Reading this in 2016 and still up to date. Plenty of opportunities on Wiki. Just wondering, does the article or post need to be 100% relevant?
Best SEO blog so far!!! check mine if you have time :)
All the best,
Alex
Yes the more relevant the better :)
Hi, Thank you for this precious post. i am hungry for such kind of trick to creating backlinks. This is one of the best way for being engage with Wikipedia. Thank again for such kind of stuff.
No problem Akash!
That’s really unique way to get backlink easily from wiki really impressive article you wrote.
Thanks
Thanks Adarsh!
Briliant Matthew Woodward, What a great articel once again!
nice information , Thank
No problem Purwoko :)
Hey Mathews You are the only guy helping with your complete knowledge, Most of the peoples jealous of sharing their knowledge, But you doing it in amazing manner!!!! Keep going on!!
Mathew = GOLDEN DIGITAL MARKETER
Thanks Mohammed :)
Great post!!!!!!! i am just surfing in the youtube to know the way of wiki link building. you explain this very well.
Thanks Forhad :)
Hi Sir,
When I was performing in Wiki as per your guide I come across an article with the title “needs additional citation for verification” Can you please tell me what they mean by this ?
Thank you
Arjun
Yes they are looking for a source of information that verifys what the Wikipedia page says
Thanks for sharing a cool article.
I just find the way for getting good quality backlinks from wikipedia.
Thanks
No problem =D
Thanks Matthew Woodward i got my first wiki link love to know more updates :)
Great job Mushahid!
Thanks Matthew for sharing such a gem of a technique. As Wiki is considered site with great DA and its individual pages also have good PA’s. It is a great place to get a link from. Thanks
It sure is :)
Hi
I did a mistake in Wikipedia
I choose the username of my site name at the time of signing up to Wikipedia. Then I added my site’s link, and after few hours they messaged me that “Your account has been blocked because you shared your site’s link and it’s spam.”
Now, my question is that Will it affect my site. My sites SERP will go down because in the view of Wikipedia my site is spam or there will be no effect.
I would wait a while as its possible your site is blacklisted
If my site is backlisted will it affect my blog.
Not at all, my blog is also black listed for publishing this tutorial haha
nice way to creat original backlinks
It’s super easy as well :)
Links from Wikipedia are no-follow links. So are they really useful for ranking? As per my knowledge link-juice won’t flow to my site because it is a no-follow link.
Thanks in advance.
I stopped caring whether likes were nofollow or not years ago
I LOVE YOU!
Thanks :)
Backlinks for Wikipedia are surely helpful. I am doing it since a long time.
Are you following the method in this post?
awesome post. I followed it and success . Thank you for sharing
That’s great to hear :)
Really Amazing if i can get backlink from wikipedia. after reading this article i am really positive about this and definitely try above process to get a high quality link.
Please let us know how you get on
Sure, i will be back after completion of task
great article, thanks for the wonderful guide. keep sharing such guides..
No problem Ajay!
Very helpful advice! I’m just getting started with my new blog and following your blog for hints and techniques. I can see continuous growth in SERP. Thanks
That is great to hear Ravi!
Really nice post. Backlinks from wikipedia can boost ranking. Feeling nice after reading.
Thanks.
They sure do!
Great article Matthew. I guess those links would remain as no-follow ones, how it is going to help in SEO?
Yes they will
This link building trick does not work. Wikipedia have been fixing all dead links with links to the internet archive wayback machine. Its a pity this defunct page still exists wasting peoples time with information that is out date.
If you read other comments you will see lots of people having success with this method in recent times
Wow! This is a wonderful tip. I need to start taking advantage of this.
No problem :)
Wow! I must admit that this is the most informative post I have read since the year started!!! Someone mentioned your site as a “Must follow” blog and now I know why.
I have one question to ask. Is there a limit on the number of citations/deadlinks one can fix to link back to a single site?
Thanks Japheth!
You only need to do one, but there is no limit
Another great piece! This is going to be my SEO class haha. I am going to apply all the mentioned techniques together with the ones you mentione in the post “The Fastest & Easiest Way To Get Wikipedia Backlinks” Keep up the good work Matthew.
Please come back and let us know how you get on!
this is an amazing post i would like to follow it for the future as well … great job thanks for sharing tmate
No problem :)
Great article my friend. Thanks for sharing. :-)
No problem Stewart!
Well thats amazing method metthew!
Thanks for sharing Im gonna try it!
No worrys Nauman!
That’s why I love your blog ;) Keep sharing. Trying to learn SEO and always visit your blog first to find my topic. I hope you understand what I need now :D
Thanks for coming back Umer!
Good trick. But, do you feel using Wikipedia with an intention to get backlink is right?
I don’t feel like its wrong
thank you very much for sharing the article.
No problem Steven!
regardless of the finding the dead link part that someone suggested does not work, you can still take advantage of this, my question is – the sites you link out to, wouldn’t it look suspect if you’re linking out to a site with some form of commercial intent?
Yes you should not link to any page that has commercial intent
Great Article, Thank you for sharing such a wonderful and informative article.
Keep sharing..
No problem Emma!
in this post, i can figure my new idea, information given in depth, thank you for this valuable information.
No problem Zovian!
thank you for such a nice article before reading this getting high quilty backlinks for my website was not easy as a newbie this article explains so nicely the way how to get backlinks from Wikipedia
thanks again !
No problem Harpreet!
Getting a backlink from wikipedia is realy very important for seo, thanks fo the heads up
It certainly helps :)
Thanks for sharing Wikigrabber, but unfortunately it only works with the English Wikipedia site. What I do is to search on Google for:
mykeyword “enlace roto” site:es.wikipedia.org
This works fine for the Spanish Wikipedia, if anyone wants to use it on another language you have to change the subdomain and the broken link text to the equivalent on your language.
Thanks for sharing your extra tip!
Really nice article!
The great thing is that you can pages that fit any niche.
Love it. Keep rocking
You can indeed!
this is really a good collection, im gona try this out
No problem
Great article…Thank you for posting
No problem Vishal!
Hello, Can you tell us how to get backlink from wikihow and ehow too? Thanks for the great guide of wikipedia backlink.
Well given anyone can create content there, just make an awesome piece of content and submit it
Excellent Link Building Guide, Getting Wikipedia Backlink is quite hard but you made it easy :)
No problem Pradeep!
hy, very good article
thanks for sharing keep up the good work
very helpfull your work
No problem :)
sir really thanks for sharing this working tricks .
No problem Bilal!
Awesome Article man one of my friends is asking 10$ for a wikipedia backlink, thanks so much for sharing now i can make my own backlinks, thanks for sharing this great Article.
You can probably sell them for $100 easily
Really nice to know this and greatly explained..
No problem Rony :)
Very Good Information. Finely i get back link from Wikipedia because of You.
You Beauty
Great job :)
I never thought that the big sites like wikipedia can be planted backlinks …
thx matt
No problem Ardy!
I got the best solution from you. Thank you very much.
No worrys Prasan!
This will be a great help to many, including me. And endless hours searching for them to save everyone
I hope it does help you out!
Thanks Matthew for your article. But Wikepedia links are no follow backlinks. Do you think they are worth our time to build backlinks ?
Yes
Hello, Matthew!
Great share, buddy! And I gotta apply it for myself to see how it goes. :)
Thanks for the uber detailed one guide! :)
~ Adeel
No problem Adeel!
To say Wikipedia links are as effective as they ever were is simply not true. I used to rank high competition local clients on page one, doing nothing but a single wiki link. For instance (Skip bins + Major Capital City).
Nowadays they are not completely useless, however they don’t hold as nearly as much PR weight as they did back in 2011. I will generally try to get one or two links per client starting out. But I never see big jumps in serps like I used to.
Are you sure that in 2011 there wasn’t less competition? SEO has become much more competitive in recent times
Yeah, possibly. But they used to seem SUPER powerful now they don’t seem to make a huge difference. Hard to tell.
That’s so awesome.
Thanks a lot for sharing such tutorial.
I’ve been so soaked recently in creating backlinks for my site. And wow! I’m kind of able to get Wikipedia backlinks?! I think I still should work hard for it.
Thanks again,
Karim
Don’t forget about important things like building your email list!
I’ve been doing this slowly for years. As a suggestion, make 5 normal edits for every link you put in and make sure you do links to normal places as well. Just like a PBN article. 3 authority links for every money link.
So realistically make 5 edits, make a link edit. Every 3 link edits, add one of your own links.
Excellent and detailed article. You are one of the few out here that I take the time to read, I appreciate your info and look forward to seeing notifications in my email.
Thanks.
Thanks Jim :)
I love this tactic more than forum link building.
Be difference. Either genius or crazy man
Thanks Matt
Haha thanks Simon!
Having tried this myself, I know that Wikipedia does not allow external links unless the web content is from a physical book published by an independent publishing house (i.e. not self-published).
I inquired about adding an external link in Wikipedia to my website on energy-bodies (energy-bodies.org), which has far better information on the subject than other available sources. But this was denied, the explanation being that Wikipedias rules ONLY allow links to information that is in an independently-published book.
So this is CANNOT be done in practice.
That is not true at all, never ask before you do.
Thanks Matthew, you’ve been very informative as always.
The Broken Link Checker by AtomSEO is awesome and super useful. Now it’s time to put it to work. :)
Thanks Robert no problem :)
I’ve got 3 backlinks from Wikipedia the last couple of years, with for me, very importent words.
And it sure helps in ranking. The first one, gave me an i#1 in google pretty fast, and without much more seo on that word, im still no. 1 and competing out official sites!!
.
That is great to hear Martin!
Matthew when you have done a link how do you know if it is going to stick or be removed by another monitor. Is there any auto way of checking if the link still exists or has been accepted please?
Just check it manually or put it in your link monitoring tool
Great Article Matthew. Getting link from the Wikipedia is one of the hardest task for every one. This tutorial is just awesome. If he/she can do properly then surely get the backlinks.
Thanks for sharing this one of the best tutorial.
No problem Swapnil :)
This is very informative sir thanks for the efforts i want to ask you that how many links will be safe from wikipedia for one site? I still made one link and it giving me good traffic. But some people said getting so many links from wikipedia for one site is not worthy. Should i made more links for my site or not?
waiting for your reply sir.
In traffic terms, more is better. In SEO terms, 1 is enough.
Wikigrabber is borked for me! Has been for ages. Just thought you should know.
I will drop them an email :)
amazing work.
Thanks Chris!
Mathew My Brother, you just ruined Wikipedia! Now all these so called SEO experts are gonna destroy the authenticity of Wikipedia for their own gain, and the contributors will have to work doubly hard to fix most of these spammy edits. I like what you do here Matt, but if you could leave a short summary on the ethics of doing these changes on the Wikipedia page, it definitely impact the spammers. Thank You! Keep up the good work.
Please read the whole article
Thanks Matthew,
Recently, you have been dishing out more on relevant ways to harness free traffic. I really gained a lot from the Tynt blast. I am moving right away to check up on this.
Thanks men, you made my day
No problem Irina :)
Golden post. Thanks Mat.
I had always thought only about the wikipedia link itself but the sneaky trick of gaining the other backlinks is genius.
I have been building up my editing reputaiton on Wikipedia so going to try this one soon!
I hope you put it to good usage :)
I think the key is to create relevant content that you are going to link to on Wikipedia. It’s pretty easy to spot linkspam and mods won’t have trouble identifying what is not benefiting the wikipedia article. Excellent article Matthew, thank for sharing these ideas.
Yes you have to pay close to attention to quality
wikigrabber is not working, after i enter the keyword and click search button, it throws some error.
do you know any alternate tools?
Its working again now :)
Nice explanation. Few years back, i tried these tactics but failed to survive with wiki moderators. But now i want to start with a new wiki account and do some work for wiki after then put some favours to my sites.
That is the right way to do it :)
Matt, your posts rock, but then again, you already know that. It’s smart to take it slow and easy on Wikipedia with a 25:1 edit ratio where you’re only placing a link to your own one time out of every 25 edits. Moderators show more grace when they consider you a legit editor. Super golden tactic, helping others before you help yourself, very solid tactic.
Great extra tip Matt, thanks!
Amazing Guide, Thanks for Sharing. It really works for me.
No problem :)
I followed what you said, made an account, and made a citation edit. Hopefully it works.
Also, is it true you can edit your user profile and add a local business citation? Ever heard of any local seos doing that?
If thats all you did, then you didn’t follow what I said
if I am able to get only one nofollow link from wiki,will it helpful?
Yes
Hey Mat,
Wikigrabber not working please check once. I am trying since 4 day’s but is shows some kinda a error.
It is working now
hey
good to see this just amazing
Hope it helps you
Thank you for the information.
To get backlinks from wikia is not an easy matter, with this article gives me a great guide.
No problem Firan!
That’s not very easy to understand for me, especially because I’m German and my English is not that good. I saw a Video, somebody said there you can just go on old Wikipedia Website and edit the references with ur Link. Do you think that’s good?
Just follow this guide, translate it that should help
Thanks for sharing this nice little secret to us. WikiGrabber is a very handy tool. I look forward to utilize wikipedia baklinks and the method you’ve taught.
No problem Tiffany
I like the way you compiled such a precious method into single article ,
I studied a lot about this wiki links but never understood in such a detailed manners like u described thanks alot matthew
No problem Sajid glad you liked it
Thank you for the info, i like your website.
No problem Adrian
Good post! I tried to edit few wikipedia posts and tried to create my own posts for backlinks before lol but it didnt help. Let’s see how ‘deadlink’ will make my link alive on search engines. Thanks for sharing and helping individuals like me :)
Good luck Irfan!
Hi, I am thankful to you for sharing this awesome article with this helpful knowledge. this is the blog that provide the lots of good information thanks for provide such a good information.
No problem Priyanshu
Thanks for sharing
No problem
Hello :
This good manner to get backlinks, and really u r genius and nothing to say about that, and I wish for u goo success in the future.
Lovely, thank you very much for this.
Thanks for your kind words Hamid!
Hello
I made wikipedia account 3 times create a page for indian news channel but they dont accept that page .. after creation they delete that page
Is there any way to create a perfect page with backlinks
News paper name is kohram news
Link http://www.kohraam.com
If those are the exact steps you took, then you need to read every word of this article because that isn’t how you were taught to do it.
Thanks for your Valuable reply, today’s Morning i didn’t made new pages but edit some dead-links , fortunately wiki saved of links there.
Thanks again
Thanx for the article. i have just bookmarked your site and opened WikiGrabber to find dead links over there. I am going to follow your tutorial step by step.
No worrys glad to help :)
Thank you for an informative and in-depth article.
No problem Martin!
after reading this i was able to get backlink from wikipedia, thanks alot and keep doing the good work
That is great to hear, good job!
thank u so much for your beautiful tip
No worrys Kaleem
This article was helpful and detailed. Moderators show more grace when they consider you a legit editor. Super golden tactic, helping others before you help yourself, very solid tactic.This good manner to get backlinks.
No problem :)
Thank you for the information.I am going to implement it.
No problem!
Hi , I really enjoyed to read this article very good informative article,
Thanks
No problem Selina!
Thank you! This is brilliant. I have been wanting to figure out how to build quality backlinks to my websites and I have wanted to know how to build Wiki Links but until now I have not managed to find an explanation that really make sense to me with enough information and guidance.
I am going to give this a good go. It does sound like quite a bit of leg work, but I am sure it will pay off in the future.
I hope it helps you out =D
Great work man i really did not knew this much about Wikipedia backlinks creation and that tool relay gonna be ace in hole thank l lot man
No problem :)
Such a great post! Wikipedia looks like an easy way to build links, I’m working on it now and I’m glad I stumbled upon this at the right time. Thanks for these valuable tips :)
No problem Reshma!
Thanks for the Idea Matthew. I tried this one time, but my link was erased by the Wikipedia moderators. I think I have a mistake doing that strategy.
What steps did you take?
Before I read this blog. I tried to add some link (not edit) in reference but it removes by the moderators. Thanks to this post now it is clear for me.
thanks for sharing and keep up the good work
No problem Sony!
thanks for the such a great information
No problem Sailesh
Really interesting article you have here Matthew. I’ve been looking for something like for a while but found anything as detailed as this. This is perfect!! Really excited to finally give this a try now – thanks buddy!
No problem Rakesh
I’ve tried many times to get backlink from wikipedia but failed all time :(
What does your edit history look like when you place the link?
This is very informative and great article for me. I tried your method and guess what i successfully get backlink from wikipedia.
That is great to hear! It would be awesome if you submitted a testimonial at https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/testimonials/
Hii,
Your article are to fabulous. But when i try to use the technique of Broken Link Strategy , I found that there will so mishappening was occurred because once a time it should be update but after then the link will regenerate as earlier. Can You help me for any site for high quality reference for Linux type articles.
Thanks
Emma
Exactly what am looking for!! been looking for how to get my link on wiki
Good luck!
When I tried to remove the dead link from Wikipedia, the Wiki accept first and then removes the link.
What does your edit history look like?
Thank you very much for your great work.And Thanks for sharing
No problem Robert!
Thanks for this informative post
No problem Cambells!
Hi Matthew,
Wow! Top information provided for wikipedia pages. I will surely try to make it for my personal blog.
Is there any limitation for personal blogs to use wikipedia or is there any way like me can create wikipedia pages?
Just start with 1
Hi Matthew. I also tried to do the same thing for citation.
I added a chart to my post and a short paragraph about the chart, which is relevant to the paragraph that needs citation. But after few hours I came back and checked the original Wikipedia link, my link was removed.
Do you know how to make sure my content meets their requirement to be used as a source?
Take a look at similar pages to see whats been allowed, but I would first look at your edit history as a sign of spam
Thanks Matthew :)
Just made an account @hunter
Great tips again!
Cheers from The Netherlands ;)
No problem Michel!
(y) :)
i wish that i could read this post earlier, wiki is a quaity source where i can build my own backlink in, thank you so much
i will try it
No problem Peter!
Hi Matthew,
how can i use this for our ecommerce site?
should i build my our wiki page for our company?
thank you
Avi Lang
Yes you can do that!
Thanks for an informative article. I love your explanation to this link building strategy….it’s one of the best that I’ve seen on the Internet so far. Job well done! There is nothing to lose here… I will definitely try to do this on my niche site.
No problem Samsu!
Google always love backlink from quality websites. Another great link building tutorial. Thanks Matthew.
No problem glad you liked it!
good one
Nice post Thanks for sharing
No problem Priya!
i ve never know that there’s a trick to get link from wikipedia. This is the first and the way to search for deadlink is amazingg. wow wow wowwww
thanks and thanks a lot for sharing it with us Matthew
No problem hope it helps you
Thanks for sharing this. I used some deadlinks but wiki was just alert to detect it and unfortunately, they removed the changes I made…
What did your edit history look like before placing them?
We tried but popular publications removes our links and put’s theirs. This is the wrong strategy by them.
They probably read this tutorial =D
I got very useful information about back link through your post.I will follow your instructions accordingly.
No problem Kamrul
Hi Matthew,
I have read many articles on how to build backlinks from Wikipedia which lacks tutorials and you sir just provided that! It was worth reading and I’m looking forward to building some Wikipedia links!
No problem :)
Nice context on wikipedia link building.
NO worrys :@)
thanks champ for sharing great tips with us, hope it will work :) keep it up
No problem Rahul
Great Post. Will definitely try it.
No problem Girish
Awesome Guideline on wikipedia link building.
No problem Ahnmed!
Great post! I am actually getting ready to across this information, is very helpful my friend. Also great blog here with all of the valuable information you have. Keep up the good work you are doing here.Well, got a good knowledge.
Thanks again
My struggle of link building will become easier now as I believe after reading through your prominent blog stuff.
Glad to hear it
very informative
thanks shem
realy nice article
Thank you Syed
tnx
sure thing
Awesome post!
have a nice day
Cheers, you too
Great info, gonna put this into practice.
Yes!! Go for it
Thank y very much for sharing.
I will try to work on it and see if i can manage to do as you have explained
Only one way to find out Francis, Thanks
thank you for this super article, you gave to help a lot
gave to enrich my knowledge ……
Well knowledge is power Marcio
Great information thank you so much…
Glad to help
Thanks a lot, i made some quality links to my site, and its improve my ranking. i always implement matthewwoodward strategies on my blog.
Regards
Isabella
I am glad to hear its helping you out!
Matthew! You have describe the whole method of getting backlinks from wikipedia in great detail. And to be honest you the inspiration for me that bring me to blogging.
Thanks :)
Indeed its a very detailed backlink strategy for Wikipedia link creation.Thanks a lot for this detailed post. It saves lot of time.
It definitely free’s up time!
Matthew you Rock! Thank you for sharing! I am implementing and will watch for results. Thanks
Thanks Jo, good luck on your results
Just open this page from my subscription email. Well done job sir. This article fly my all doubts about creating backlinks on Wikipedia.
Good to hear Harpreet
Thanks for sharing this Information.The information you provided is much useful. i really enjoyed your blog article and save your site on bookmarking.
Thanks Faruk for the bookmark!
Really, you have given fantastic details in this article for getting the backlink from Wikipedia. after reading 4 hours blog posts, I am going to use this technique.
Thanks Jenny you won’t regret using this technique
hai
it was an useful information for us.Thanku
You are welcome Ann
Thanks a lot
no worries
Nie post and easy to understand!! thank you
No worries, just need to put into action
Thanks Matthew, I always wonder how to get a useful link from wikipedia. Your way of getting link is very simple will definitely try it. Your article is very useful thanks for writing it.
I am glad it has helped Anisha
great post dude i really appreciated the blog and thanks for sharing to us … :) :)
No problem
Hi, Matthew.
I think coming across your blog here is like finding a goldmine of information.
I wish I found it before, but better late than never. Thank you very much for all you’ve shown us here.
Cheers James, you know it makes sense
Thanks for sharing that awesome information
No problem, hope it helped Amandeep
Hi Matthew
thank you so much for this post you have explain everything briefly keep posting.
Thanks Tayyab, will do
This is much informative and nice article for me.
Awesome news
Hi, Very Good Article & Helpful !!
Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure
Thank you for providing these details.
No worrys Ashish
Hello, thank you for great information! I just have two questions:
1) Is it OK to add reference link with official document pdf which is not embed into my site, I mean like mysite.co..m /official_document.pdf. There is no visible header of my page, no home page link, but I guess its still good for SEO? I think it looks more serious to verify as it would be with my header menu linking to products.
2) Is it the same goodness for SEO if I manage to add my site’s link into other language Wikipedia (small country’s). Or does en.wikipedia. org ranking better than let’s say bg.wikipedia. org?
Hey,
1) Yes
2) Yes
Very Informative topic Matthew.. I really impress your write-up strategies..
Thanks Alice
Excellent Matthew! Thanks for your great ideas in creating backlinking in Wikipedia. Really helpful. Looking forward for your new posts..
No problem!
Its awesome article for me. Thanks Alice…!
Cheers
Thanks
Sure thing
Hi there friends, good article and good arguments commented here,I
aam resally enjoying by these.
Glad you are enjoying it all :)
Great post Matt. I found it pretty long and tough process but works. I could get couple backlinks from wikipedia. Thanks a bunch.
Hey, no problem
I have a new blog and I have been researching on how to build back links and rank high on Google so as to attract organic traffic. Thanks to your blog I have learnt new ideas to implement on my blog.
Hi Daniel, glad you have learnt something useful from my blog
It is in reality a nice and helpful piece of information. I’m
glad tha you simpl shared this useful information with us.
Please keep us up to date like this. Thanks for sharing.
No problem
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nobody else recognize such special about my trouble. You are amazing!
Thank you!
Cheers Pearson
Thanks for giving good information on Backlink with Wikipedia
No problem
Hi ankit, thanks for this wonderful article. Fot the last some days, i am looking for perfect link building techniques for my blog and i finally found it here. Keep publishing new tips and tricks!
Glad my tips and tricks have been of use!
Hi it’s me, I am also visiting this website on a regular basis, this site is actually fastidious
and the visitors are truly sharing good thoughts.
Attention to detail is key! Thanks for coming back again
Thanks for sharing such a good thought, paragraph
is nice, thats why i have read it fully
Glad you liked it
Couple of days ago my website lost their positions due to google changed. Now I’m searching for ways to restore them and this article is one of the useful info I’ve found on the subject.
Glad this has been of use to you.
I have never done backlinking in wiki sites before but will try sure !
Please do, thanks for reading
Thanks,
Really helpful it was truly a article with free tool suggestion, you’ve helped me in getting the links, I truly needed for my first blog post.
Hi Steven, glad it helped and good luck with your first blog post!
Read this before.. now time to start doing it.. cheers mate again..
Hi Shaun, no time like the present
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Thanks very much and i guess, watch this space
Hey, I’m new to this Backlinking strategies and I love to read your posts.
I’ve been finding a way to get backlinks from most of the Authority sites.
Wikipedia is one of them.
Thanks for this extremely valuable info. Hope it helps me to create good Backlinks for my blog.
Hi Rushikesh, glad you found the info valuable, now it’s down to you to put it to good use
Very useful information. I will try but it doesn’t sounds like it’s going to be fast and easy ;)
Thanks Marcelle, well only one way to find out…. let me know how you get on
Very useful information. Thanks so much
Hi Pramod, no problem
Thanks Mathew. I have learned something new. I have even bookmarked your site. i found it so interesting and educating.
Awesome, hope to see you again soon
i tried this method and it worked for me but i also applied my own idea to it.
Hi Derek, glad you tried out this method. I’d be interested to hear what your idea was
Thanks a lot dear sir for guidance.
No problem, thanks for reading
Great article Matt!
I haven’t tried Wikipedia for backlinking yet, but I’m eager to do so now.
I used Ahrefs and noticed my competitors getting links from some Wikipedia pages. I want some of that link juice too!
Hey Alvin, sounds like you have a good opportunity there :)
Cheers :)
No problem :)
this blog is amazing in teaching great stuff thanks and keep posting
Hey, no problem
Fabulous….lots of info to parse through here, but would like to give some of these ideas a try.
Please do
I really appreciate you taking out time to explain in details how we can get backlinks from Wikipedia. I am not a tech savvy person so I always need a step to step guide to the smallest details and this has been super easy to understand. I am off to give it a try. Thank you
Hey Christiana, no problem, best of luck
Hi
very informative post, will surely try for my website
Good luck!
I have been searching that type of articles ..which teach me how to get backline from wekipedia
And high authority domain site thanks for it you solve my problem really ….
Glad to have been able to help :)