How Wiki is Driving Traffic to my Website for Free
I’m Ben and I am the owner of herbalcoolingtea.com and I have been quite the fan of diversification of free traffic sources. Suppose for example you rely on search engines to deliver all of your traffic – that’s kind of dangerous in my opinion because all you have to do is just one mistake or search engines can make one little change to their user policies, which could have you banned.
If you’re like me I subscribe to numerous email newsletters all trying to promote their product as to how to get more traffic. I don’t doubt at all that these products work provided that you put the effort into getting them to work but I have been doing online work for the past 5 years and I find that most of the effective tools for traffic generation are really just free and can be applied by anyone with a little bit of effort.
Everyone will tell you, you have to be everywhere on the internet in order to be heard or in order to have back links. Google is great fro SEO and organic links but I recently stumbled upon Wikipedia. Yes, Wikipedia Foundation that free and open source public dictionary, which anyone can edit. This is the one that is driving the majority of my traffic and all for free.
One day I checked my Google Analytics and noticed a 444% jump in traffic here is a screen shot:
Upon examination of this I checked to see where my traffic was coming from and Analytics gives you the top 5 traffic sources and Wikipedia has consistently been my number one top traffic source for as long as I can remember, which was for about a month.
What I did was I got myself a free account at Wikipedia and searching for terms related to my website and add descriptions to Wikipedia and leave a back-link to my website in the references or external link. I also recommend creating a public user profile for yourself with links to your websites.
Next up, was of course organic searches from Google, direct visits, the Blog Glue Network and then that Feed-burner one that came in fifth was the result of the Bring My Blog Visitors Back plugin by none other than Max Blog Press.
As with everything in life, I always firmly believe that diversity is the key to everything. Diversify your traffic sources and your traffic will come.
Wow.. thanks a lot
In my experience, it’s very difficult to post links on Wikipedia and not have them removed. Are you not having this problem?
Ella,
Well so far I have never had any of my links removed.
First of all, I did not set up my wiki account with the goal of getting back links. I set up my account in order to be a contributor and some thing happened. Something great happened! I got great links. It’s because I am treated as an authority on Wiki now. Now Warning for all, Don’t go around spraying wiki with your links. Don’t go to Wiki for the back links – Go to Wiki as a contributor first and you will be rewarded.
ben
How exactly do you do this?
Wow Wikipedia! Now that is very impressive thank you very much for this valuable info. This will go great with my upcoming launch for the Retire Dream Team. Thanks Ben!
This sounds great, but can you give a bit more details?
Excellent advice. Now what? I linked to my web sites on the user profile and they were removed.
Good idea, but how do you keep from having your links removed ?
I have heard this before but have not taken action. Thanks for the inspiration to get on it!
There are some tricks to keeping your links up on Wikipedia, but I’ll need to find them. Please do advise on any that you are using.
A few tips for keeping your links on Wiki:
1. Be a genuine contributor rather than a SEO back linker
2. Search for topics that you are genuinely an expert on.
3. Don’t just place a link but place solid evidence as to why it belongs there
Wiki is an open source online reference dictionary for everyone. A lot of people trust it so please let’s use it as such and let’s not be selfish to get the back links for ourselves.
Thank you very much for all your comments.
And most of all thanks to MaxBlog Press for posting my first article!
ben
At the bottom of this interesting article is a mention of Bring My Blog Visitors Back plugin.
So I went searching for it on this website.
It proved a devil to find. The wiki had no link. Eventually I found a link to the product page on community.maxblogpress. But that turned up a 404 page!
What happened to it? Did the plugin disappear? Or has it changed its name?
444% is crazy!! But not as crazy as this http://youtu.be/PW-FQQT4lHA
I thank you for this useful information which worked out for you.
Just out of curiosity, what is your wiki user profile page?
I love your traffic approach. One would never suspect how Wikipedia can drive tones of organic traffic hands free to your site. Now I know how it works. Get tips would implement it right away.
Thanks for the free tips
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