I will never use Wiki to obtain backlinks from now on

Self statement

[ethanliang]

I got to know Wiki two weeks ago. I thought it is a great way to obtain backlinks. I didn¡¯t know it is such a depreciated thing. Today I have deleted all my links on all kinds of Wikis and I will never use Wiki to obtain backlinks from now on.

Ethan

[richlowe]

Why do you say it is depreciated?

[Dreamquick]

Anyone who has a high-profile wiki has probably had it link-spammed to hell-and-back by now in the same way as blogs suffered comment spam to the point that lots just opted to turn comments off or spam-filtering them prior to using them.

By now the better wikis will either be secured (or at least excluding the wiki from crawlers) or worthless because of "bad neighbourhood" stuff.

- Tony

[rfgdxm1]

I'd expect that Google has depreciated wiki links. In particular, ignoring links to sites which lack substantial backlinks from non-wiki sites, or have an unusually high percentage of links from wikis.

[ethanliang]

English is not my native language. Sorry for any misunderstanding.

Properly using wiki to gain backlinks is all right. But using wiki just to gain backlinks is a spam. I will not spam wiki anymore.

Chinese seem to have bad famous of spamming wiki. But most of them even don't know what is wiki. They cannot understand the English on wiki sites. But they know what "Edit this page" means. They just use link:www.othersite.com to find those strange wiki pages. They find out that those pages have high pr and there are many links on them. After adding their own URL they are still wondering why those pages can be edited.

By using CURL of PHP I can spam wiki at easy. But it is wrong. So I stop doing it.

[buckworks]

Three cheers for you, Ethan!

[suidas]

Wikipedia always ranks high in my backlinks. I don't think Google's penalizing them at all. People are relentless about combatting link spam, so only valuable links are retained. If Google visits once a month, having a spam link up for 10 minutes isn't going to help you much...

By contrast, my links make perfect sense there--they add value to the page--and are therefore kept. Indeed, I didn't add most of them myself.

[bull]

I confess that I added a Wikipedia backlink on one specific topic (city name) matching exactly my NC site, and not regretting it at all as it gives me relevant, good traffic. If people would not like that link there, they would not click it. I confess too that, if I encountered links to hotel affiliate spam sites on that specific (city name) Wikipedia site, I would try to remove that spam.