How To Score Instant PR6 Backlinks For Free
For over a year I have been holding onto this tip. This tip is so obvious that after I tell you, you’ll probably kick yourself for not realizing this yourself. Backlinks are important, there is no question about that. The level of importance can vary from site to site. For example, with micro niche blogs that target keyword phrases with little to no competition, backlinks aren’t all that important.
With blogs such as my own personal blog, backlinks are very important. My blog is about making money online, consequently, that is a very competitive niche. I need backlinks to continue to rank for competitive words in search engines. Luckily for me, a lot of people write about my blog which supply me with very powerful and organic backlinks.
How can you get backlinks if people don’t write about you or your blog? How can you get very powerful backlinks (PR4 thru PR6) instantly without having to pay someone for them or having to barter for them? The solution is simple: Wikipedia
Wikipedia can supply your blog with some amazing and very powerful backlinks. These are links that you can add yourself simply by editing a few Wikipedia pages. Anyone is authorized to edit a page in Wikipedia, in fact, you don’t even have to register for an account.
Let’s look at this page for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legos
This page is a PR6
Now, what if you have a niche blog about Legos? How can you add your link to this PR6 Wikipedia page? Simply scroll down to the bottom of the page to the “External LInks” section, click edit and then add your blog!
After you click the EDIT button you will be presented with this page:
(click the second screen shot to zoom in)
On the Editing page, simply add your blog into the list and then click save. After you do that, your link will instantly be added to the page, thus giving you a very nice search engine friendly backlink.
Now before you go off and start spamming Wikipedia, here is a word of advice: Don’t be an idiot. Meaning, don’t abuse this little tweak in the system. You have to work your links in very carefully. If you’re too aggressive, moderators will catch on to what you are doing and simply remove your link. Worst case scenario, they can actually BAN YOUR IP ADDRESS and prevent you from ever editing in Wikipedia again.
Don’t choose to edit very mainstream and popular pages. Choose pages where you can sneak in under the radar and slip in a link. Try not to link to home pages, try to link to relevant articles that you have written. Don’t add links very often because every time you do, your IP Address is logged into their system. They keep a track record of the activity performed on each IP Address. The best advice I can give to you is to just be very natural and act very subtle and silently.
I have been doing this successfully for over a year and I can’t even begin to tell you the number of backinks I have pointing back to many of my niche blogs from Wikipedia.
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Um, wow. Yeah, that’s a good piece of advice, though I have to admit I’m a bit apprehensive about doing something like this. Only because I think a person would have to do a bit of research to find just the right page link to the specific articles in their posts.
Will definitely be looking into this bit of information a bit further. Thanks hon.
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Well, that one’s out of the bag. Thanks, Garry. Just kidding. I’ve been using that one for about a year myself.
Great Tip. Are Wikipedia links not “nofollow” links?
Thanks
Vaibhav
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Thank you so much Garry Conn. After I get banklink at Wikipedia.
My website is Top first page at Google.com. This is a good trick.
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That really is a GREAT tip but like most of your “tips” it’s not necessarily “easy” to do. Christine is right – it’s going to take time, effort and most importantly RESEARCH to make this strategy “work” for your website!
There’s an old saying about “sh*tting the nest” and Wikipedia is DEFINITELY not a “nest” in which you want to take a proverbial dump!
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Garry,
Once again another knowledge bomb is dropped. I look forward to testing this out. Thanks man.
Yet another great idea Garry, however, as the others have said, one must heed EXTREME caution when playing in this ball-field. You don’t want to be banned from Wikipedia.
That said, do you have any suggestions on how to avoid such a ban? Any thoughts on how often to do an update, how many additions for other sites you should do for each addition of your own, and so on?
Good stuff Conn man! I’ve heard about this a few times, never tried it myself…but if you have some niche sites that need some lovin, this could help out quite a bit.
I agree, do it naturally, and link to relevant articles.
Thanks man.
As Vaibhav said, all external links on Wikipedia are nofollow. What’s the point then?
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/all-wikipedia-links-are-now-nofollow/4288/
Live and learn… oh well, never hurts to have the links there though for added traffic.
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Thanks for the reminder, I’ll have to see where I can slip it my latest projects on Wikipedia
I receive a small amount of traffic so I’m not too concerned the links are no-follow.
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Oh I guess they really are nofollow
However you’re right, it doesn’t hurt to gain something a little extra 
-Mike
Great tip, thanks for sharing it.
In your screenshot there are a number of other links. Were those put in by people doing the same thing, or were they put in by a moderator?
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So, you don’t get PR . . . the traffic is good enough – I agree completely!
I haven’t used Wikipedia like that in a long time (over a year). One of the added side benefits of having your link in Wikipedia is all the links you get from other sites that duplicate and/or scrape wikipedia pages.
Nice tip… you should keep it a secret
That is really an interesting concept. If you actually do add something to Wikipedia is it acceptable by them to add your link or is it only supposed to be if you have a blog or page that addresses topic?
Seems like a good idea.
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I think no follows are fine anyway. If I check my links with Google Webmaster tools no-follows show up anyway, not sure if all or just some do, plus other search engines don’t use no-follow, just Google. Google is the big one but the no-follows must count for something, I guess.
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Since links on Wikipedia have now become nofollow, I guess the only point of getting links there is for traffic. Then I would only edit articles related to topics that I talk on my blog like SEO, webmaster, internet marketing, blogging, etc.
Still, it is a great idea.
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I do have links in Wikipedia, did I put them there? Not all of them.
The problem is people will remove your links if your page is down or that is content that does not conform to their standards. You are not suppose to link to how-to sites or sites that re-iterate the content that is already on the page. I believe you can however quote yourself if you are a figure of authority or an expert in your field. If the information is relative and expands upon the information that is in Wikipedia you should be ok. Read the guidelines before submitting though.
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One of the things I saw a lot of when I was doing it, was you would put your link up (and other related links), then a competitor would come in and remove your link and put up their links. It was highly annoying. When I was doing it, I would never remove links only add them, EXCEPT when I could see people blatantly removing mine and adding their links to lower quality sites.
Anyway, it is a good way to get traffic and a little link love if you don’t overdo it.
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Nice Work MR. Conn cant imagine a site with PR 6 but with Wikipedia its possible.Also friends of mine have abused the system no word on if they got banned but I gotta agree don’t be an idiot when it comes to using there system!
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Actually, it is just as easy to create an account at Wiki and become a contributor anyway. Takes 5 minutes, you don`t have to be sneaky, and you can the go wherever you like (assuming it is suitable of course)
Been doing this for some time. Very surprising how few people know about it though.
I guess it is like the old Cnet.com PDF trick. I used that to get ahead of 90,000,000 other sites competing for the Google term Àffiliate Program Directory and I am still on the first page a year later.
Great blog,
Ron
There are currently near 900,000 PR 6 sites. Not really that big a deal any more.
One of mine that teeters between PR5 and PR6 almost weekly is http://whichaffiliate.com/
Easy to do to tell you the truth.
Right Garry?
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Even though your actual link on wikipedia does not pass off any PR love, you still have a decent chance at getting some extra PR juice. When I added my blog post to this wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christmas_films
I was amazed about how many people copy the wikipedia page verbatim and include it on their own site. As a result, I got 9 do-follow links from various wikipedia content stealing sources. Not exactly the quality links I was looking for, but I’m sure I have benefited from these links.
In addition, I have a theory (similar to your Google Bookmarks theory) that wikipedia links are especially helpful in getting on the front page of Google.
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Garry,
Thanks a lot for this tip!
Look forward to seeing it in action.
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I tried this awhile back with a mini-site I had created about Aruba. It brought me a steady flow of traffic too which was nice, but it kept getting deleted. From what I’ve read elsewhere, Wikipedia has a lot of editors that treat their turf like little empires and they don’t like people changing “their” pages.
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Have tried this in the past on the italian Wikipedia linking back to a GTD page of mine, altough I was one of the few sites in italian language at that age somebody deleted my link.
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Gary,
Thanks for this great tip and I’ll definitely give it a go myself. But one question I like to ask is I thought Wikipedia is nofollow. Won’t that mean no backlinks from Google is possible. Are the backlinks you received Google’s or others.
Peter Lee
Kevin, that is really great to hear that you actually remember that post I wrote about the Google Bookmarking theory. Very cool man.
Yes that are nofollow and I actually didn’t realize that; however, if you read the above comments, a lot of people have mentioned some really good reasons why it is still worth doing.
To everyone, thanks for the really well thought out comments.. there is a lot of value on this page.
Wikis are everybody’s play grounds… But it is unethical to tuck in private blog links and sell own products/services to sites like Wikipedia which is one of the greatest free source of information on the net.
Great tip and discovery though
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Great post – I had been actually thinking about starting an entry on Wikipedia about something that hadn’t been covered. However, it is in now way related to my blog. Do you think I can still gain from it as using my URI as the picture source I supply with the new entry?
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I’m surprised you didn’t save this one for the newsletter.
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thank you for the great information. Being new to this business I could use all the tips I can get.
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Like you said, this is a good strategy if your in a niche market.
“No-Follow” only means Google’s robots will NOT…but real live beings still can and will follow
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great tip
i considered using this before to one of my sites, i just never put that into aaction.
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Many Wikipedia mod will also erase your link if its not revelant. By the way even if links are nofollow they bring quality traffic
Hey Garry,
Thanks for the tip! I new you could go edit pages in Wikipedia, but I do not know that it was that easy. Will definitely follow your advice and not drop a boat load of links
Well, I think this is not that easy to do as people expect a lot from Wikipedia.
The quality of information is important and you need a bit of confidence too to put your link up as a reliable source.
Do you know how acceptance works; can one person in wikipedia arbitrarily ban you?
Garry, just an update or attention; adding links in a such a way is rendered “NOFOLLOW”. So, obviously, it’s not useful as a backlink. But I see it much of “adding value” for users. If you find your article is informative, add it and people will find it.
Thanks!
- Wakish -
As several people have said, your links are likely to get deleted, especially if you pick a geeky subject like LEGO – checking the article you referred to, Garry, the only external links are still to the most major of LEGO sites. No, a Russian sales site just appeared, I bet it disappears just as fast! I actually have a well-established custom LEGO site but it would never stick there if I added it.
If the links are no follow,how can this technique be effective.Can you really gain traffic by someone else using the article after you have made your mark? Joining and submitting seems to be the most effective way but of course not the fastest or easiest method.Thank you for the info,however and keep it coming!
Garry,
I just edited a page and put my link there. It’s relevant and so I hope my link stays there. Tell me since you’ve been putting links at wiki for sometime and I like to think that your links are relevant to the pages you selected, were any of these links deleted by their moderators? Do you see more traffic coming from these pages?
Peter Lee
owhh,,, thank you so much gary…..
it is nofollow backlink so you only get traffic but cannot rise up your pagerank!
but thanks anyway for your trick
Great I have added my blog to Wikipedia too
Ohw…When was this article written? It's been years since Wikipedia removed that feature..
Anand
this doesnt really work they removed it a second after its posted
thank you
there link are noflow bad news mmmmmm
Live and learn… oh well, never hurts to have the links there though for added traffic.
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