[WikiEN-l] [Commons-l] How to get your company returned higher by search engines courtesy of Wikipedia

[Stephen Bain]

I think this was meant to go to wikien-l, I've sent it there too.

On 8/26/07, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone recently posted an article about how to use Wikipedia to move
> up on Google search engine results.  I had also read another article
> on the same topic on a private list serve.
>
> I have now caught what appears to be a publisher using methods similar
> to what we've been reading about, being careful not to use their own
> in-house computers, creating multiple accounts and IPs to do the work,
> adding multiple outside links to legite and related texts and journals
> to one article, then making that article a prime see also for related
> articles.
>
> Very clever, very well done, if only they had had the patience to do
> it a little slower, and use someone a little nicer.  See my post on
> AN/I and follow my links for a little insider's view on how to promote
> a product on Wikipedia.
>
> KP
>
> PS In spite of direct and quick access to ISPNs and journal links,
> this still could be someone who doesn't work for Elsevier, but really
> likes their journals and books enough that they would do this.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Elsevier_spamming
>
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Stephen Bain
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