Ron Davies

I have been asked about this a few times, so I am going to try and clear the air as best I can.

For some time, a number of clever web 2 marketers have been sneaking “External Links” in over at Wikipedia in categories related to their keywords.

Ok. I can sense a few blank faces so I will explain…

Google ranks your site based largely on the authority and quality of the sites that link to you. This means that if WordPress.com links to you, and Google does consider WordPress.com to be an authority site, that value is passed on to your site when Google ranks you, and when they determine your Google Pagerank.

Since Wikipedia is clearly seen by Google as an authority site on literally thousands of subjects, getting a link from wiki to your site would be a good thing, no? Let’s explore this a little more deeply…

Many of the Wikipedia category pages and result pages are ranked by Google as PR 5 or even 6 in some cases. A free PR 5 or PR 6 link to your site certainly wouldn’t hurt would it?

But wait…before you knock yourself out chasing links from Wikipedia you should keep one thing in mind…

Wikipedia uses strictly “nofollow” links.

Now, this does not mean that a link from wiki to your site is not a good thing, it just means that Google does not credit your site with any of the “good stuff” that would normally have been carried to your site if Wikipedia was NOT “nofollow”, that’s all.

IMHO, a link from them must have more value than no link at all, mustn’t it?

If this kind of pursuit interests you, have a look at the video below where I linked a Wikipedia PR6 page to my affiliate program directory site called “WhichAffiliate.com”

Cheers,

Ron

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I wrote a post to the Twitter time line a day or two ago asking followers to post in 140 characters why anyone should elect to follow them on Twitter. Now I know this isn’t a truly original idea, but I thought it a great opportunity for the cream to rise to the top.

What is important to note here, other than the varied and interesting reasons given for people to elect to follow these responders is that they all took the extra bit of time to send me their reasons in a DM, or Direct Message” to me. Among other things, this shows that these folks will take the time to answer your questions as well.

Please read through the posts below, and consider following some or all of these excellent people.

Ron

	ZaraGreen I provide daily nugget-sized tidbits in audio, video & text blog posts that improve individual decision-making & interpersonal relationships 9:22 AM yesterday
	pegbaron I’m pretty new to Twitter,but I’m going to implement JamesAllen’s TwitterVirus.It’ll be fun to watch my list grow &see what I tweet about. 9:22 AM yesterday
	CoachCharrise My posts are insightful and inspiring. I design them to make people think about what they’re up to in life. Nothing mundane from me. 9:19 AM yesterday
	SashaKane Hey There. I see Twitter as a grand adventure. I love exchanging ideas, information, warmth and pleasantries. Hope Followers feel the same. 12:55 AM yesterday
	tomforce7 Ron I am one of the funniest, spontaneous, sacreligious, genius types on all of twitterdom. Your peeps will love me and praise you as a god 12:50 AM yesterday
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	CarolAnnB Tweeters can follow me on the yellow brick road to natural everything…healing, education, self-help, and yes – even poetry. Namaste 12:44 AM yesterday

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