If you are working on some SEO strategy and thinking about investing money into an SEO agency ,Text Link Network or any other Inhouse efforts, there is a new tool called Wikipedia traffic statistics tracker.
Wikipedia statistics tracker allows you to get an idea of how many visitors you’d get if you would rank in Wikipedia’s position.
Below you can see that the Wiki site “Web analytics” (currently #1 for web analytics) has been viewed 23485 times in March 2008.
Obviously Wikipedia has some significant traffic coming from outside the search engines, but you can get a great estimate of whether you want to take on Wikipedia in the SERPS or let them outrank you.
Maybe not accurate enough?
I haven’t tested it yet, but if you merge the Wiki data with some Comscore, Hitwise, Google Adwords, Compete and/or YSM data (Overture inventory) you’ll get a pretty good idea of what traffic you could receive.
The Wikipedia statistics tracker can also be used for various things such as a buzz tracker. Let’s take a look at Jason Calacanis, who seems to have made a big impact over the past few days.
No idea what exactly triggered the sudden interest in him, but it probably paid off for his blog and his company :
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:04 am
Fantastic tool!! Thanks for the useful info…
April 6th, 2008 at 11:44 am
This is actually a great approach of forecasting SEO ROI I didn’t think of! Thank you!
April 7th, 2008 at 12:53 am
I find sitemeter very useful service. Best thing is that shows locations of visitors, where they come from to my website and exit links…
SnoopMoney
April 10th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Pretty neat tool.
Like you said, combining the data with data from other sources could make this really valuable.. combining it with some sort of serp-competition ranking would be cool..
April 11th, 2008 at 2:58 am
Thank your for this hint. Actually any hint is highly appreciated
May 7th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
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August 27th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Thanks for tip, until now I had lost in statistics mare magnum, with this tool all is more easy.
October 25th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Always looking for great tools, thanks.
December 30th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Excellent resource. Thanks for this useful info. Thanks.
February 9th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
it´s a good tool, but the mainly problem in those tools like futere pagerank checker, backlinks checker is the accuracy. But it´s valid to have a good idea of traffic.
Great tip!
March 18th, 2009 at 9:18 am
It´s a great resource like Compete.com and other traffic tools.
I didn´t know this tool, thanks for the information and the post.
I´ve already bookmarked and subscribed the feeds.
Thanks again.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:03 am
That is a good resource to estimate traffic because wikipedia has first position on may good subjects!
April 27th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
good man :}
May 4th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Great post. Any tool that can bring informations to your research its a good thing. I’ll see how this tool actually works later. Thanks for the tip.
May 11th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Hi,
thanks for sharing this, really useful information!
Keep up the good work
Greetings from Estonia,
Margot-Helena
May 18th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Great tool to estimate traffic.
Amazing tip!!
Thanks,
May 20th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Great too man !
Too bad wikipedia made the links as nofollow or else they would have given some high link value.
Regards,
ASHISH THAKKAR
(SEO Products maker)
May 26th, 2009 at 5:42 am
Good man, liked this post
indicate to my friends
cya!
June 1st, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Wikepedia are complicated to seo..
cya!
June 5th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Great tip! This tool looks interesting.
June 21st, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Amazing tips!
Excellent for those who needs to track SEO works.
Thanks.