Wikipedia is an essential source of information for many many Internet Users. The site itself ranks highly for tens of thousands of keywords often making it the first point of call for an information hungry visitor. Since wikipedia is open source, basically meaning that all of the content is contributed by its readers it is possible to use Wikipedia to your websites advantage.

First of all, Wikipedia doesn't not like people spamming them with links. Your link must be relevant to the topic that you post it in & also it must be of valuable contribution to the page. Less popular niche pages are much easier to add to & also allow you to get much more targeted traffic.

I have a few sites that get over 200 visitors per day just from Wikipedia alone, however I did spend a lot of time helping the community & writing articles and also developing my own sites to were of great value to the visitors.

So what's the morale of this article, Wikipedia can be used as a great source of traffic provided your site is relevant. If you are posting an external link to your site in Wikipedia here's a few simple rules to follow:

Don't post it at the top above all the other links, they have most likely been around long before you, if you do this to get the most traffic you'll get removed.

1. Don't post more than one link on Wikipedia at a time, if you post the same link in 3 different areas it'll get deleted quicker than spam email.

2. Make sure you link is relevant on the topic.

3. Don't link to Made for Adsense sites or site created specifically for making money.

Also create your own pages, add your own content about your specific product, this has also proved to be very useful for traffic & seo purposes. Happy Wiking! (Is that even a word, who knows :p)