Lost Wikipedia page and dropped heavily in rankings. How many of you aware of and experienced this?
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Hi all,
We lost of our Wikipedia page for 2nd time and we dropped in rankings 2nd time too. I got confused first time whether Wikipedia was the actual reason as we had couple of major changes in our website. But recently it's been clear that losing Wikipedia page is the culprit as we have no website changes around these days. How many of you aware of this and experienced this? Please share your views. Hope this info will help you.
Thanks
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Hi William and EGOL,
Here is the additional info on our Wikipedia page which answers your questions and give more knowledge on similar scenarios:
Our Wikipedia page is pretty old. It was first created on 2005. Website link was pointing to our homepage. Suddenly this got deleted in this January due to lack of reliable resources and the page sounds little spammy and advertising. We didn't create this page. If so this couldn't survive for so long. So, back to the actual discussion, even the link from Wikipedia is technically a "nofollow", we can see the importance Google gives to this page to boost a website's ranking with a strong backlink.
Thanks
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Seeing that you use the words... "our Wikipedia page"... makes me think that you might have created the page yourself.
If this is a Wikipedia page or a link that you created yourself, it is possible that someone at Wikipedia deleted it. They don't like self-created articles or self-created links.
Just sayin...
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Hello,
I have not experienced this. I'm assuming you lost a link on a Wikipedia page pointing to your site? Please provide as much information as possible so we can look at it and get a better idea of what happened.
Best Regards
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