How small businesses can get a link from Wikipedia. - 33 views
started by FARNAZ SHAMS on 16 Mar 12
started by FARNAZ SHAMS on 16 Mar 12
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This article speaks about how small businesses can get a link from Wikipedia.
From long time ago some businesses have tried to put a like in Wikipedia as a commercial to improve their business. However, putting link/links in Wikipedia is a bit challenging and businesses must pass four steps to have link in Wikipedia.
1- Become a trusted editor: if you want to put any content in Wikipedia you must have good history of editing behind you because Wikipedia's editor will remove new users content from Wikipedia. So, businesses should focus on a topic, which the topic may related to their own business or they can correct some articles or start to fill some holes in Wikipedia.
2- Pick a page that you are going to own: according to Wikipedia's guidelines and policies in this stage businesses still can't have their own page in Wikipedia, so they need to find a page which its topic is very close to your business area.
3- Add your links: when businesses found a target page they can add some content there and add their own links (but not dozen of links!) too, they can also edit contents (but if they are sure the content they are adding is valid) or they can add some media, such as a photograph or diagram.
4- Link up your page: as you see getting external links from Wikipedia is really challenging, but making internal links is not that much hard and businesses can create internal links as many as they can to make more traffic in their page.