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Check if Wikipedia Links To Your Site

A High Rankings Forums member wonders if there's a way to check how many links are on Wikipedia. A few people say yes, you can. Some possible methods of exploration include the linkdomain:yoursite.com site:wikipedia.org or Google Webmaster Tools. But Barry, our savior, gives the most authoritative answer yet:

To see your links from Wikipedia (nofollowed or not followed) go to:

Here is an example search of our links in Wikipedia.

Wikipedia Link Search

Nice. If you didn't know that existed, now you do. :)

Forum discussion continues at High Rankings Forums.

Editors note: Tamar wrote this post, but I made changes to links and added some more information.



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posted rustybrick in Link Building at November 16, 2007 9:55 AM Comments (5)

Comments

Great tip. Now I can get rid of the spreadsheet I was using to track all my self promoted wiki entries ;)

 

Now I can remove all my competitors links hehehehe :D lol

 

gabs, lol!

 

Barry, Gabs is actually on to something there.

I've done this for a few of my sites by removing my competition because they either got there links there in a sneaky way (and do not comply with the Wikipedia policies) or some how are irrelevant to the article. It's a good way to help decrease the competition :)

 

Jonathan, Oh, I know...

 

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