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Wikipedia does not need any introduction. Wikipedia is the biggest content maker website which publishes informative, introductory, useful, updated information on all possible things, events, personalities and topics related to lifestyles, technology, religions, demographics, politics, society, entertainment, sports, art, fashion, business, finance, media and television.

Wikipedia is a content giant and information aggregator website. You write any celebrity on the search engine, one of first four results would definitely be from Wikipedia. Wikipedia company has many other sister websites. Sites like Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikispecies, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Commons and Meta-Wiki are other projects of the Wikipedia organization.

Obviously people know about Wikipedia, so one thing is sure that I am not going to give you an introduction to Wikipedia.

Then, What I am going to tell you? This must be the point you should be wondering about and looking to know. Good!

Jumping to the topic, bloggingmatters is all about blogging and bloggers. Whatever a blogging career requires and blogger has to do with his blogging, all the SEO aspects of the blog and website, domain selection, high quality website hosting reviews and importance, blog’s content making, readers trust development, blogger’s motivation, readers engagement and loyalty, all these factors are essential part of a blogger’s blogging philosophy and strategy and bloggingmatters is proud to cover all those topics for new bloggers to get quality information and learn whatever we have experienced in the past.

The point is, A topic like ‘5 Lessons for bloggers to learn from Wikipedia’ might not give very good idea to the readers who are new into blogging and who don’t know about SEO, blogging and earning income on the blog. For such readers, I make a stop and explain in few words then I will proceed:

As I have explained that bloggingmatters covers topics related to blogging, online income and blog’s SEO, So I try to deliver few things by going out of the pool to give an understanding to the readers about the basics. Now if you don’t know much about content strategy of your blog, then you don’t know what is niche, then I should not start giving you lectures on SEO of your blog!

The purpose of making such interesting topics is to entertain new comers of blogging and giving the idea of blogging and content making to the people who don’t know about blogging, so that they understand complicated things in an easy way. Now almost every internet user knows Wikipedia and other sites like facebook, hotmail and yahoo. So it would be a great idea to explain technicality of search engine optimization with the example of Wikipedia.

5 Lessons for bloggers from Wikipedia

1-      Detailed Content

There is no doubt of content detail on the Wikipedia. It is considered the most effective and accurate information provider about any place, event, person, thing or activity. Wikipedia is a largest information resource website and they must have thousands of contributors worldwide to contribute the information and content to the Wikipedia.

One of the reasons of Wikipedia’s success is size and detailed content. Search engines like details and useful content websites and Wikipedia wins in many SEO terms and conditions to become a major information and content provider for everyone. It stands on no. 6 in world ranking of websites according to Alexa, though many Web Developers, bloggers and Web Consultants don’t rely much on Alexa, it’s a long debate to do, but certainly well-positioned and well managed websites or blogs make their Alexa ranks better and better with the passage of time.

Detailed content means the complete guideline of the topic and the content covers and tells most of the things in the shorter time. Similarly blog content should be like Wikipedia’s content, detailed and well written. Wikipedia has normally big articles to describe things in details and search engines love well written and relevant big size content that help users to know about the certain topic.

Depth in the content of Wikipedia is another sign for its quality and detailed. You can see multiple articles linked to a single topic which tells us that how much details they have for each topic.

2-      Quality of Content

A website or blog’s content won’t win without good quality. Try to learn this thing from Wikipedia that quality needs to be very high. If you analyze Wikipedia website, you will find out the correct stats and information which adds more value to their content. Readers follow Wikipedia due to the quality and correctness of the content.

Once you start delivering effective and quality content on your blog just like Wikipedia, then gradually you will be making your readers base. Don’t comprise on the quality of your content, trust of readers is hard to get and it takes few minutes to spoil it. So be careful.

It’s a big lesson to learn for new bloggers. Many bloggers and internet users’ find different topics on Wikipedia daily and people mostly come to Wikipedia by searching specific keyword along with Wikipedia or wiki word to get specific Wikipedia pages to see. For example wiki iphone5, iPhone 5 Wikipedia, Samsung Galaxy S3 Wikipedia, ipad mini Wikipedia are the keywords searchers use on search engines.

3-      Internal Links

If you open any Wikipedia article or reach to any topic on Wikipedia, as I mentioned earlier that they have detailed content and each articles contain different other links inside article about related things. For example if you find out Wikipedia page of Lionel Messi who is a famous footballer of Argentina and he plays for a Spanish soccer club Barcelona as well. You will definitely find out Wikipedia pages links of Argentina Soccer team and Barcelona club as well.

This type of link juices is a key strategy in the SEO but it should be used with very care and knowledge. SEO experts believe and even Google knowledge base on Search Engine Optimization guides us to link most obvious and relevant link to the content. So internal links should be made with proper attention to guide and help readers, not just to get good ranking. Valuing the readers is a big lesson to be learned from Wikipedia, many web developers and especially bloggers think that ‘How it will help us by valuing the readers’?

I tell them a simple answer that, when you value your readers and make content for readers which will be useful for them, they come to your site through search engines, then they will like your content and blog and stay on your blog for maximum time while reading your content which will indirectly help you in getting better image in the search engine’s eye.

4-      Relevant Resources [See Also Section]

Relevant resources or relevant information are the heads use for other valuable blogs or websites that a blogger links to his article for guiding and directing readers to another content on other site. Wikipedia also uses this option but great care. You have to do it also if you want to do it. Read out a detailed material on Wikipedia about Search Engine Optimization, Internal and external linking.

If you want to add a link of any other blog or website, which you think it will be useful for your readers to share with them. Make sure you are linking to a site which is not violating any terms and conditions of search engines or any other third parties. Make sure the site links you linking to, are not linked to any other sites which are indulged in copyright infringement or violation practices.

5-      External Links and conditions [The References]

You must follow the external links articles and techniques used by Wikipedia. Wikipedia guides a lot about such topics. Most of them are already mentioned in the previous point which tells us about the quality of site and content you are linking and giving reference in your content.

Conditions are there for webmasters and bloggers to relate your content and link with the blogs and websites according to the best practices criteria given by search engine giants and experts. It is not easy to make a best and most effective link. Always take great care while adding reference links to your content. You can note one thing; Wikipedia will always link to the top sites and blog articles, which means Wikipedia knows the importance and effects of bad link and good quality link. Good quality link means link to those blogs and websites which are working 100% accurately and your blog or content is relevant to those blogs which is very important thing on your side to analyze first.

Conclusion

I hope you liked my article related to Wikipedia and its SEO techniques and strategies about Content generation. I studied Wikipedia in a short span of time and then it took 2 days for me to write this article. I hope I delivered something useful to you. If you liked my article, please tell me in the comments section and I would love to hear your suggestions and opinions related to this topic.

I would recommend Tom Ewer’s article on Organic Search Engine Optimization. Tom is a great blogger and he blogs on leaveworkbehind.

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Has San Khan is a Blogger and Content Strategist. He loves to write on Blogging, Readers Engagement, Customers Value, Small Businesses and Business Development. He writes on other blogs occasionally.

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