I Love Wikipedia.org!!!

Zeus · #1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 08:45 AM

I'm currently in my "get traffic to my site" phase and I'm trying a couple of things. The one greatest thing I've done so far is adding my site to http://wikipedia.org/!

Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia." My site is on fast food toys so I added my link to articles that relate to fast food toys. For example, there is an article on Happy Meals (as in McDonald's) and I added my link to the article's list of external links. Within two days I started getting traffic from wikipedia. I added my link to other articles like "Burger King advertising," "Sonic Drive-In," etc. In less than a week I've seen my numbers jump up, which made me jump up and down.

Google Analytics shows that 67% of my visits are from wikipedia.org.

I highly suggest you try adding your link to related articles on wikipedia.org today. It's easy. Just open an account with them and add your link to an article's "list of external links" (found at the bottom of the article).

Rob · #2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 11:55 AM

Yeah Wikipedia is absolutely brilliant however, to add your link to external links you have to provide some information and add to what's there, you can get your account banned for editing external links and not providing content for them that is valid they moderate it regularly.

TechieGuy · #3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 11:55 AM

I was thinking about using wikipedia.org, but was unsure of the traffic.

I may think about it some more seeing as you are having success with it.

sammyspam · #4 (**permalink**) 01-20-2008, 08:32 AM

Wikipedia does sound very helpful, ill check it out.

love your site btw, i never knew that about fast food toys

TechieGuy · #5 (**permalink**) 01-20-2008, 08:35 PM

Well I added an external link to the WRT54G and WRT54G Series pages of wikipedia a few days ago.

As of right now, I had 48 visitors from those links to my site. Not bad for a two second edit.

Rob · #6 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 07:12 AM

Thats great news TechieGuy, Wikipedia is a very good site indeed.

PeterM · #7 (**permalink**) 02-08-2008, 12:36 PM

managed to miss this post, that is very interesting, I'll have to check out wiki and see if I can contribute

KevinCamon · #8 (**permalink**) 02-08-2008, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeus

I'm currently in my "get traffic to my site" phase and I'm trying a couple of things. The one greatest thing I've done so far is adding my site to http://wikipedia.org/!

Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia." My site is on fast food toys so I added my link to articles that relate to fast food toys. For example, there is an article on Happy Meals (as in McDonald's) and I added my link to the article's list of external links. Within two days I started getting traffic from wikipedia. I added my link to other articles like "Burger King advertising," "Sonic Drive-In," etc. In less than a week I've seen my numbers jump up, which made me jump up and down.

Google Analytics shows that 67% of my visits are from wikipedia.org.

I highly suggest you try adding your link to related articles on wikipedia.org today. It's easy. Just open an account with them and add your link to an article's "list of external links" (found at the bottom of the article).

Zues,

I'm curious! What platform did you use to build your "fast food toys" website?

Kevin

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