{"id":1453,"date":"2008-05-13T09:10:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T09:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/a-wikipedia-listing-isnt-easy-but-here-are-6-tips\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T14:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:00:31","slug":"a-wikipedia-listing-isnt-easy-but-here-are-6-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/a-wikipedia-listing-isnt-easy-but-here-are-6-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wikipedia listing isn&#8217;t easy, but here are 6 tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" width=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/meta\/2\/2a\/Nohat-logo-nowords-bgwhite-200px.jpg\" hspace=\"7\" alt=\"Wikipedia logo\" height=\"200\" \/>Convincing\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia,<\/a> the\u00a0largest\u00a0multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet, to include a page about your company can be\u00a0one of\u00a0the best ways\u00a0to become well-regarded,\u00a0credibile in the eyes of the search engines and generate tons of traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Yet a listing on\u00a0Wikipedia is\u00a0very difficult.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Wilson of Web Marketing Today did a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=piXBG-VWfYM\" rel=\"noopener\">video interview<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0Mike Svatek who passed along six tips on how his\u00a0company,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.BayNote.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Baynote.com<\/a>, got listed on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>Tip #1: When submitting your own copy for a listing, don&#8217;t write persuasively.\u00a0\u00a0Just 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.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A doggie treat to Publicity Hound Harry Hoover\u00a0for Twittering about the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convincing\u00a0Wikipedia, the\u00a0largest\u00a0multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet, to include a page about your company can be\u00a0one of\u00a0the best ways\u00a0to become well-regarded,\u00a0credibile in the eyes of the search engines and generate tons of traffic. Yet a listing on\u00a0Wikipedia is\u00a0very difficult.\u00a0\u00a0 Ralph Wilson of Web Marketing Today did a video interview\u00a0with\u00a0Mike Svatek who passed along six tips\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/a-wikipedia-listing-isnt-easy-but-here-are-6-tips\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":12,"wds_primary_category":638,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[622],"class_list":{"0":"post-1453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-media","7":"tag-building-traffic","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41558,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/41558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}