Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Why should I bother now when Wiki sits atop Google (for nearly every informeationn search term) and they let you add your link if you have a extra good resource.
Is Wiki the new Dmoz? Is Google only looking after commercial sites and spam and actually letting Wikipedia organise the worlds "accurate" information?
Seperate them as such.
Spammers and bloggers do love this wiki chit but dmoz is now a spam directory in their own right.
Any money making service category in dmoz is controlled by people that will make sure their part of the directory will make them money while maintaining their part of the dmoz directory looking honest.
This wiki chit is being spammed by all walks of websites and is an open field for any type of spam that you can think of.
In my opinion, do not worry about either website when promoting your own.
At #*$! some people are complaining that that it is so difficult to enter link into Wikipedia... it is deleted within 30 minutes. In fact almost each article has at least one editor who will fight link spam. For ecomerce sites it might be very difficult to enter Wikipedia.
Although, I haven't seen that Google valuate Wiki links much.
Nice to see you on this forum :).
"Although, I haven't seen that Google valuate Wiki links much."
I think if you type in any word in Google Wiki is there!
I just did "robert the bruce" and "flowers" - both times - Wiki there! Google loves Wiki - no doubt.
Just another check - "predator" - oh look - there's wiki again.
My site was pulled into the top 10 of 1 billion results for a keyterm via wiki - Wiki stuck - mine disappeared after a few days. There is a definate impact for a short time - and who knows - perhaps you can bounce back into the serps later - we'll see.
Surely Wiki is one of the easiest ways to get links from high PR pages on the net - even with spam policing (which is why Google must love it).
Of course this problem does not affect the large recycled-boilerplate-affiliate-text fraction in this forum, but only those producing the real content. Alas, many of them have not yet realised the gravity of the situation - one of the strongest sites on the net starting out to make all other content sites obsolete for their lefty FFA BS. Capturing the knowledge of the world - what a crap.
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What is particularly infuriating though is seeing my content re-phrased and re-worded on Wikipedia. Some of that data took days, months and even YEARS to compile.
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I know this situation. Watch the relevant Wikipedia articles, analyze who has rephrased your content, and when. Then have a look in your raw logfiles, block the IP range, and display a dedicated error message. I've recently done so with a region in eastern Germany: in this case, the parasite in question was kind enough to proudly write about himself and his location on his user page. They steal your content - but do no even think about giving you a link. Remember: it's always them, often the unsuccessful in real life, who have invented all that Wikipedia content ;) ;)
"Although, I haven't seen that Google valuate Wiki links much."I think if you type in any word in Google Wiki is there!
You're missing the point. Wikipedia pages might rank well, but that's not the same thing as saying that out-bound links from Wikipedia are valuable. Google doesn't have to PR0 a directory to devalue it's OBLs.
Wikipedia is a better source of traffic than dmoz, but both have value in being in. On one competitive topic wikipedia is my best non-se referrer. Traffic quality is good, too.
TJ
I simply don't have the manpower to play the add/delete/erase/ban wikipedia game I hear so much about (sounds like so much fun, endlessly modifying wiki articles and seeing them revert back) so I think I'll try your route...
On a personal note, I don't even like going on wikipedia, it makes me feel kind of icky with the infighting and sycophants and well, just plain weirdos...
I think you missed my point - in the last 3 months i have managed to get about 10 wiki links that have stuck - and i have seen my serps improve. Google sees these pages as high pr relevent pages - I cant believeanyone would disagree with that.:)
Also - I watched as my site appeared at the very top of Google - just below the "new" wiwki article - and a week later the wiki article stuck but mine disappeared. Without wiki i doubt i would have made an impact in those serps.
I have went down both roads. I wrote an article and posted it on Wiki when it was launched - ie it was the first of it's kind in wiki - breaking news - although I am not an expert!. I created the page and linked to my site - 100% relevent.
Then some nice guy came along 3 month later - rewrote thae article and dumped my link and added his - so i removed his!
I also managed to convince editors to add my link to a few established english and foreign language pages for my sector.
It can be worth perseveering with.
Wikipedia pages might rank well, but that's not the same thing as saying that out-bound links from Wikipedia are valuable. Google doesn't have to PR0 a directory to devalue it's OBLs.
in the last 3 months i have managed to get about 10 wiki links that have stuck - and i have seen my serps improve. Google sees these pages as high pr relevent pages - I cant believeanyone would disagree with that.:)
I also disagree with that. Although the nofollow attribute was removed from external links (at least from the English part of Wikipedia), it seems that PR is still not passed to external pages. The benefits of external links are visitor from Wikipedia but not an improvement in the SERPs.
seems that PR is still not passed to external pages
How can you tell that PR is not passed on? Not that I think it has anymore clout than any page with the same PR. But I can't see why Google would block Wiki links.
However I've found it is a good source for traffic at least in academic areas. Also in my field I don't find that editors delete quality links.
A while back I decided it would help me more to join them so I've written some info in my field and linked to pages of mine where appropriate. I've also linked to some other quality pages from wiki articles. But then mine isn't a competitive topic.
It does look like wikipedia is floating to near the top on many searches. It's the power of the size of the site just like those topics 'about' stuff tend to rank in the top spots.
I am convinced large content sites have an advantage. There is a lot of power in internal linking.
How can you tell that PR is not passed on?
But I can't see why Google would block Wiki links.
Wikipedia is handled as any other website
That would be my guess.
I suspect that is the case with DMOZ as well.
blue widgets - No wiki, no mysite.com (anywhere on the scope)
next day
blue widgets - wiki no9 mysite.com 10 out of 1 billion results.
next day - wiki no9 - mysite.com gone.
A bit simplified but this is what I saw 2 weeks ago.
However I've found it is a good source for traffic at least in academic areas. Also in my field I don't find that editors delete quality links.
Yes I found this too ..
WP is mass content spam by people with obviously too much money ... [english german japan etc are the biggest wikis] still we got to live with the reality of life. Wikipedia is also the new Google human editors vs machine.
I got by now 1 link deleted in WP of about 30 .. If you can't beat them join them ..
Here's one to get started...
Once you do get a link in...check the links on the left and see if there are translations. More often than not, these translated pages have similar links to english language sites - add your link there too.
Effectively, you could get a few pr pages on the same subject - that won't be joined by redirects.
I think the main thing is to make it useful then it has a longer half-life. I also got links not added by me. One on the Portal site of my subject that survived some edit wars.
Is that cause we're stupid - I mean only taught one main language in primary?
