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But before removing your links, there may be a discussion on Wikipedia about whether you should be banned as a spammer. If so, there is a chance that those pages will later come up as Number 1 in any search for your site. If that's want you want, feel good.
If you haven't read the guidelines then your behavior may or may not be unethical. But is it certainly unguided, and may have unforeseen (by you) consequences.
That's interesting. I have seen discussions ranking, but never outranking any particular website. Could happen, I imagine- it's not outside the realm of possibilities.
As far as getting banned, they can ban you by IP from Wikipedia, but all you have to do is turn your DSL modem on and off and grab a new IP.
But before removing your links, there may be a discussion on Wikipedia about whether you should be banned as a spammer. If so, there is a chance that those pages will later come up as Number 1 in any search for your site. If that's want you want, feel good.
Quickly runs off to Wiki and spams it with loads of links to competitor sites ;)
You tell us... do you?
Wiki is doing *very* well in Yahoo these days.
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If your site is commercial, then you may have broken Wikipedia's guidelines
Hmm...can't say I've been around there too much, but I can say I have seen many links to commercial sites in certain industries.
Ethics represent the way people want the world to work, Economics represnt the way it actually does work
If you really have a hang-up then add some other sites as well, it also goes a long way towards making your links "blend in with the crowd"
Newby here. Observation on the discussion from a frequent Wiki user:
Does your entry add value? Does it inform? Or is it an ad that basically just promotes a point of view?
My position is that if the Wiki entry is generally informative and the links lead me to more information that I might not have otherwise found, then this is a good thing.
--g
Anyone on this?
What bums me out is that when I do a Xenu on my site all my links to wikipedia always show up as faulty. But that's another topic for another day.
Wiki you can add you own external links ..if everyone feels like it's crap then it will be removed .. about as transparent as it can be.
everyone can join and write articles and add links ...and everyone else more or less determines it's value.
You can discuss openly with other editors and submitters. It goes far beyond being just a closed liting service like DMOZ.(which despite the DMOZ ediors objections ..we all know what the truth is)
That is so wrong. I mean what's your price for killing your own family?
You won,t kill them? Then ethics as it's place at the side of economy.
fourchette
I remember thinking, "Nya ha ha ha" while webmasters were grumbling about the nofollow- because I knew it had been removed.
Guess not everybody knows yet. Nya ha ha ha!
It spiders a wikipedia page three times in a week. On the middle spidering, it finds a link which is not there on the other two. And that link was:
(a) added by a non-regular contributor; and
(b) removed by a regular.
Statistically speaking, Google should nudge some of its relevancy counters upwards: was the link on topic? Probably not. Was it a spam linkdrop? Probably.
I don't know if Google does that but Wikipedia is such an obvious place to look for spam in that way, that I hope they soon do.
Wikipedia regularly removes links to sites that contain nothing but high-quality information --
Feels good as I have three links to my site on Wiki, none of which I personally added :)
Whenever I see an external link to a site that runs Google AdSense ads, I delete it from Wikipedia.
May I ask why?
But then we come back to old Google guidelines which tells us that no one can harm your site. Competitors would find this a very easy way to maipulate your site's ranking.
