Wikijacking is not a new term. In good old days people used to hijack Wikipedia pages and suck the link juice out of it as much as they could. This really pissed off Wikipedia owners and moderators so in around 2007 Wikipedia went nofollow as a result.
This technique is a classic wikijacking with a little twist on it. Of course, anyone can just go out there and spam Wikis to death but the benefits of it are questionable. So, we are, as in classic wikijacking, are going to go out and mass edit other people’s wiki pages. The twist is, we are going to target specific wiki site, supported by popular link building automation software programs like SENuke. SENuke specifically supports several popular wiki platforms and DO NOT lock pages by default. This means that there are tons of open pages that are created by SEOs for promotional purposes. They are likely are already a part of linkwheels and have relevant backlinks pointing to them.
I’ll use Wikispaces as an example. Just go to Google and search for the following.
your keyword -protected site:wikispaces.com
It will give you a list of relevant pages on Wikispaces that are open for editing. You can easily spot pages created by SENuke and other SEO bots.
Now you have three options depending on your hat.
White hat. Contribute relevant content to the wiki page and add you link.
Grey hat. Just inject you links into the page text or dump them right under the article or between paragraphs.
Black hat. Edit out links to competitor’s money site and replace with a link to your money site.
You can add links to all pages you’ve just edited to Linklicious so they get re-crawled.
Here are few useful tips if you go this way:
- Work under proxy since your IP will appear in wiki logs
- Post anonymously or using the throwaway wiki account (self explanatory)
- DO NOT use this method on you customer’s web sites. WIki owners can get really pissed by you editing their pages and can follow your link and contact the site owners
- To boost your results, use Scrapebox to harvest wiki pages, find out their PageRank and then only inject links into high PR pages
That’s all, folks. Happy wikijacking.
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Thanks much; am dropping a few right now!
Should have asked in the first comment: what is your favorite tool for handling browsing with a proxy?
I normally just use Firefox with FoxyProxy addon. HideMyAss Pro VPN is a good option as well. They switch your IP periodically.
Gave FoxyProxy a try – disappointed in the price for the Pro version. Thankfully, FF remembered the proxy id & password so all I had to do was enter once. Ta-da!
Sent you a pm on bhw about an improved search string for wikijacking.
What is bhw ? Can you post search string here so everyone can benefit?
Here you go.
It filters out files, tags and other useless links.
BHW = Black Hat World
Very clever, have you ever had problems with link builders catching you (either grey or black hat style listed above) and contacting you?
I suspect a lot of this would go unnoticed as the majority are probably made for clients and won’t get checked again.
The majority of links I find are created by SENuke and other automation tools with disposable emails. Even if they get notified they don’t ever check this email.
However I got a couple of emails from pissed off people like “why did you change my page”, “this link is irrelevant”, hehehe
That’s why I don’t recommend it for customers’ sites. Because they contacted me via the site I promoted.
This is awesome mate, thanks for sharing.
Do you mind sharing the other wiki sites that SENuke supports? I’ve not been able to find them.