How To Get Quoted (And Linked To) From Wikipedia

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Nick Stamoulis and my search engine optimization company, Brick Marketing both are mentioned in Wikipedia several times. How does this happen?

There are three primary ways to get a link at Wikipedia:

• Get a Wikipedia entry on yourself
• Be listed as a reference
• Be listed under “External Links” on a Wikipedia article

Getting a link in any of those three ways is difficult but possible. We recently discovered that we were listed as a reference for an article on Google. How does that happen?

Getting An Article On Yourself At Wikipedia
Getting an article written about yourself at Wikipedia is probably the easiest way to get a link. It works best if you have a website, but even if you don’t have a website you can still get an article on yourself at Wikipedia. You just won’t have a link.

One word of caution: Don’t try to write the article yourself. That could get your article removed. Instead, build a relationship with a Wikipedia editor and have them write your article. Thats an easy thing to do since anyone can be a Wikipedia editor, and you don’t even have to sign up for a Wikipedia account. Be sure, however, that whoever writes your entry is fair and balanced and doesn’t write obviously favorable content that is promotional in nature. The article must appear to be objective and unbiased. Therefore, have the author stick to verifiably true facts about you.

At the end of your article, you can have the editor include a link to your websites, but don’t try to get every site you own listed – just the primary site and blog, if you have one.

How To Get Listed As A Reference At Wikipedia
Becoming a valuable reference at Wikipedia is a little more difficult. You have to establish yourself as an authority on a subject. Since Brick Marketing provides search engine marketing services, that gives us an edge on certain topics. Next, write a controversial blog post or article about something that a lot of people care about. This happened when we wrote a blog post about Getting An Article On Yourself At Wikipedia Google’s search within a search feature. That caught the eye of a Wikipedia editor and we were used as a reference for that Wikipedia entry. The result was a valuable inbound link from a highly authoritative website with top rankings in the search engines.

Get An External Links Mention At Wikipedia
To get listed in the External Links section of a Wikipedia article, you just have to be a source or reference on a topic that is written about at Wikipedia. This is just as good as being a reference listed in the footnotes of a Wikipedia article. It can actually be better because many articles have a lot of references and your link can get lost in the middle of them. But articles at Wikipedia tend to have a limited number of external links so your link could stand out more.

All you have to do to get listed in the External Links section of a Wikipedia article is to be an expert on something that an article was written about. If you are a recognized authority then your website could be linked to from an article at Wikipedia and it all begins with your expert knowledge.