Internet Babel

One way to get traffic started… basically certainly to your site is by using Wikipedia. It’s one of the most popular sites on the Internet, one of the most trusted sites by Google and every other search engine and one of the most highly search engine optimized sites on the Internet.

Now don’t be stupid, obviously if you abuse it… it wont happen. But one thing I can recommend doing is one simple thing, add your site to a relevant Wikipedia article under external links. Now sometimes it will get taken down maybe if you use spammy anchor text or maybe just because they may believe it was submitted by a spambot. But now they have implemented a new code activation to type before you submit… your site should pretty much stay there. And if you notice it does get removed, just go back and submit it again. If your site is quality and not spammy and you think it should be there, put it there. No one else has anymore right than you to be there and visa versa.

The amount of traffic you can getting doing this alone is pretty amazing. You wont get thousands of uniques a day but definitely it may help you start off with a few hundred visitors every other day or even a day or at least half that. It’s not prolific I know but remember, it’s free and at least it’s helping people find your site. And don’t forget, it’s valuable, not spammy traffic, it’s a relevant site on Wikipedia… the average joe seems to think you need special kudos to get there so will be more inclined to instinctively click sites there and trust them before reaching them simply because Wikipedia allows them to stay there.

Doing this has definitely helped me get traffic started off pretty regularly to alot of small time sites. It’s a very useful thing to do and your not abusing anything, your providing someone with a useful, relevant link and at the same time freely and legally driving traffic to your site. The fact that they are already looking for whatever your site is related to because they’re are on that article, in my mind makes the quality of the traffic much higher than even the traffic of some social bookmarking sites just because it’s so, so targeted and focused.

Seriously consider doing this and do it alot. Submit your relevant sites to relevant Wikipedia articles on that topic. And remember there isn’t just one article on one topic, genre’s, people, laws, everything diverses and disperses into other areas and regions which can still be considered relevant to your site. So you can easily submit to ’alot’ of articles. The only limit is how far that topic stretches and spills into other regions.

Also it doesn’t have to be the sites homepage, so I mean… if you consider how much you might digress on a blog or within a site it’s not that hard to find a relevant page to things you wouldn’t normally think to do with your site and get away with it. So in some respects your limited pretty much only by your imagination and site span.

Another advantage of doing this of course is that Google will pick up the fact your link is a trusted link in Wikipedia, which to the best of my knowledge can only do one thing. Get you ranked faster and higher. All hail Wikipedia traffic!