Convincing Wikipedia, the largest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet, to include a page about your company can be one of the best ways to become well-regarded, credibile in the eyes of the search engines and generate tons of traffic.
Yet a listing on Wikipedia is very difficult.
Ralph Wilson of Web Marketing Today did a video interview with Mike Svatek who passed along six tips on how his company, Baynote.com, got listed on Wikipedia.
Tip #1: When submitting your own copy for a listing, don’t write persuasively. Just the facts, please. For many of us who write marketing copy almost every day, this feels unnatural, sort of like a right-handed person writing with the left hand. But it works.
A doggie treat to Publicity Hound Harry Hoover for Twittering about the video.
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Your article said six (6) tips, what happened to the othe five (5)?
This is a great idea for publicity, I never thought of that!
Barbara, click on the link in my post and watch the video for the other 5 tips.