Cloaking Wikipedia links

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Basically just want to know if any of you guys are sneaking links into wiki, how do you cloak your links so the wiki bot or whatever the fuck it is, doesn't recognize your links half an hour after you have committed your act of wiki link vandalism?

Ive tried all sorts of cloaking but to no avail.

Or, if you have got ANY good tips to keep my shit up there longer I'd love to hear them.
 


Just an idea that is totally unchecked/untested...

Wiki fixes are done by logged-in wiki users. You could create an account on Wiki and see if the URL is slightly different for logged in users (like an extra &uid=blabla or something). When you get a referrer from the slightly different URL, cloak.

Again, just a shot in the dark.
 
Unarmed Gunman said:
Register. Make some useful edits to similar niche pages without adding links. Drop link. More useful edits to similar niches.
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Yeah i get what you mean though this isn't the kind of niche you can make useful edits in, i'm basically going against what the wiki articles are about but being "helpful" about it.

goddfadda said:
Just an idea that is totally unchecked/untested...

Wiki fixes are done by logged-in wiki users. You could create an account on Wiki and see if the URL is slightly different for logged in users (like an extra &uid=blabla or something). When you get a referrer from the slightly different URL, cloak.

Again, just a shot in the dark.
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Nah, the url is teh same.
 
Sticks79 said:
Yeah i get what you mean though this isn't the kind of niche you can make useful edits in, i'm basically going against what the wiki articles are about but being "helpful" about it.
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The more useful edits you make as a registered user, the less likely your edits are to get flagged. That has always worked well for me, and wiki links are very good sources of traffic. What you could do is link out to a useful content page and if it sticks, change the content in a few weeks to your real shit, although it would still have to be relevant to the page.
 
Unarmed Gunman said:
The more useful edits you make as a registered user, the less likely your edits are to get flagged. That has always worked well for me, and wiki links are very good sources of traffic. What you could do is link out to a useful content page and if it sticks, change the content in a few weeks to your real shit, although it would still have to be relevant to the page.
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Yeah wiki is awesome traffic and ive made a lot of extra sales because of it, and yes ive come to teh conclusion to register and be a useful mo' fo and post quality info, ive a lil feeling it's definitely worth the extra work.
 
There sounds like a need for a service here....some of the article writers should get on this and sell a Wiki service. I'd buy a package or two.
 
A> Register a similar domain (think wickedfired.com here)
B> Redirect the link temporarily to a "resource" at the correct domain
C> Change redirect link to your aff page after the link is a few weeks old.

It's worked for me in the past.

Also, wikipedia external sources are perfect for data. If you don't want to do the shady stuff above, just round up some data for the niche and publish on the web (or in a PDF) >> link from wikipedia. No advertising at first then update as you want it to.

Just get creative, the links will flow but not if you label it as spam. Do something that looks squeaky clean to get the links to stick then change it later.
 
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Hey sticks79, I posted a thread at another forum I visit about a little experiment I'm running with Wikipedia at the moment. I've had 5 links from PR5 wiki pages to one of my parasites stay up for about 2 weeks now. Drop me a PM if you want to chat about it further.
 
Albus Finch said:
Hey sticks79, I posted a thread at another forum I visit about a little experiment I'm running with Wikipedia at the moment. I've had 5 links from PR5 wiki pages to one of my parasites stay up for about 2 weeks now. Drop me a PM if you want to chat about it further.
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Wiki links are nofollow, so your PR is pointless. We're talking about getting traffic.
 
Unarmed Gunman said:
Wiki links are nofollow, so your PR is pointless. We're talking about getting traffic.
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Wiki may be nofollow - but they get scraped by every tom, dick and harry to build adcents pages all over the web. Keep your link up for just a few weeks and you'll start to see random backlinks from all over appear :)
 
My company would be interested in helping you guys out with this service. If anyone's interested in it you can catch me on AIM. It seems like it could work well, going to start working on it right now to try it out. It could be highly profitable. We'd write the new content and let it sit for a day or two and then insert the links. It seems easy enough since we already offer content writing.
 
erect said:
A> Register a similar domain (think wickedfired.com here)
B> Redirect the link temporarily to a "resource" at the correct domain
C> Change redirect link to your aff page after the link is a few weeks old.

It's worked for me in the past.

Also, wikipedia external sources are perfect for data. If you don't want to do the shady stuff above, just round up some data for the niche and publish on the web (or in a PDF) >> link from wikipedia. No advertising at first then update as you want it to.

Just get creative, the links will flow but not if you label it as spam. Do something that looks squeaky clean to get the links to stick then change it later.
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+rep

And cheers for those other sources to Harvey, forgot about those.
 
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