I’ve been trying to come up with various ways of exploiting sites for traffic (or anything else that it brings) and I found Wikipedia is a great source if you work it right.
As we all know, Wikipedia is the free online encyclopedia that is basically controlled by the users. So, essentially we can all go into the site and add information as we please.
Well, almost.
Personally, once I setup a specific niche site, I try to look for something very similar in Wikipedia. They are extremely popular and search engines LOVE them so if you can’t rank on the first page of a popular keyword term, more than likely Wikipedia would do the job for you.
Search engine visitors —-> Wikipedia —-> Your Site —-> Potential Revenue
Now it doesn’t matter how these search engine visitors get to your site, just as long as they get there. And by now you guys should know that I preach search engine visitors equal money in your pockets.
Okay, so how do you use Wikipedia exactly to get traffic?
I’d like to start off by saying that you should not spam the site at all. If you do, more than likely you’ll be banned and that will hurt you as well as others in the long run. In addition, because it’s a user environment, that means people have the right to delete your links especially if they are not related to the topic. So, keep that in mind!
Since it’s a user encyclopedia, you are forced to create an account, which should be fine for all of us. Once you have done so, go to the specific niche you were aiming for and at the bottom there is a section “External Links” in which you can add your links to your site with the anchor text of your choice.
But those links contain the “no-follow” attribute, just FYI.
Now if you are smart, you’d go with topics and niches that contain very few links so that means more focus towards your site. Of course, it’s up to you to figure that part out.
Example:
If you have a poker site (yes, I’m talking about poker once again!) which teaches people how to play or has some sort of useful information on it, try looking up “poker” or something equivalent.
As you can see there is tons of information on the page but there are only two “External Links” which you could simply plugin if you really wanted to. 
Some topics have a “semi-protection” lock on it which means they do not allow edits from anonymous IP addresses or the administrators constantly see people violating their policies so they were forced to put the lock on.
Now don’t ruin it for all of us and spam and go against their policies!
You’ll know if it has the “semi-protection” lock on if you look at the top right corner (or see the screenshot below):
I tried this method with a couple of small niche sites that I created and within the first couple of days I saw my traffic increase by a couple hundred visitors. It was nothing drastic but the traffic was definitely steady. Plus, those small niche sites are not heavily searched for so I didn’t expect thousands of visitors each day or anything.
I figured this would help some of you guys that are testing out different methods of traffic. Plus, this type of traffic is steady and you only have to set it up once.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Nice one again dude. Gonna try this one too. Hey I think you should password protect this one.
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Kurt – You think so? I think the title speaks for itself and it’s not too hard figuring out how to do it after. I don’t think, at least? But I’ll consider it but for right now I’ll just let it be… then again, my $100/day Adsense post was open to everyone in the beginning as well.
of course wikipedia very very suported
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hmmm, I was just thinking about this a while back. But I was too afraid to try it. But you make some good points, and traffic is traffic. So me test this one. (Thanks again)
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that’s a pretty interesting idea! I think I will try and give this a go for some of my nice sites.
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Very cool, this one goes in the arsenal.
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Had no idea you could even generate traffic from Wikipedia. Great tip.
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Hi Jay,
I got this post in my email after I subscribed for your $100…post. This one is an engaging post and I have already started to dig into my posts, if they have some relevant and useful matter that can be used at wiki. Thanks a lot. I will be coming here for more. By the way, I have yet to get the password for the famous adsense post;)
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Great strategy, I will try this strategy and see how much extra traffic Wikipedia sends to my site
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You really gained a few hundred visitors a day from Wikipedia?!?! I have tried the strategy after reading it on Garry Conn’s blog, but it doesn’t give out too much traffic.
Great post, i can think of a couple of niches that i can try this on. Thanks for giving me this idea
Jason
Interesting tips! Had no idea about this before. Well it’s work good for small niche right?
Putting links on wikipedia pages is cool although they mostly will be restored in previous state by moderators. How to pass that?
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This practice will really only work for non competitive niches. Tried this one for the insurance niche and the link gets deleted within minutes.
In my experience, the Wiki “editors” have a sense of superiority over those trying to edit wiki pages. It is real easy to get banned and almost impossible to have a ban lifted. You really have nothing to lose by trying.
yeah, it is good technique.
but wikipedia is nofollow.
we can put link but it is not counted as backlink.
2 hours ago I was thinking about this. I wondered if it could be made. Wikipedia usually ranks in Google because of the internal links. It really has few external, if you can get more backlinks you will easily surpass it.
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After some testing I must say, that only way to put link there is to edit add something useful in article.
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It has never occurred to me to use Wikipedia for traffic. I wonder how flexible those editors are.
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Thanks for good post and example. Almost every keyword that i search on google, Wikipedia page come up on top. Google love Wikipedia site. Thanks for tips.
I think people will get a lot better results following this post. I am hopefully going to be one of them.