Wikipedia Dead Backlink Finder - Easily Find Dead Backlinks On Wiki Pages
Introducing the Wikipedia Dead Backlink Finder – Your Ultimate SEO Booster!
Unleash the power of Wikipedia to supercharge your website's SEO rankings with our cutting-edge web-based software tool – the Wikipedia Dead Backlink Finder. Designed for digital marketers, SEO enthusiasts, and website owners, this innovative tool empowers you to identify and leverage broken backlinks on Wikipedia, the world's most trusted encyclopedia, to enhance your online visibility and authority.
Key Features:
1. Targeted Link Scanning:
Enter a list of Wikipedia URLs or keywords to check for dead outbound links.
Conduct a comprehensive search by entering keywords, and the tool will automatically scan Wikipedia URLs for dead backlinks.
2. Deep Check Options:
Set the tool to check the wikipedia pages linked to from the list of wikipedia URLs you enter or keywords you provide for an extra deep broken backlink check.
3. Intelligent Filtering:
Filter out irrelevant pages by setting up keyword filters for Wikipedia URLs.
Define the criteria for a dead link, including HTTP error codes (e.g., 4xx errors) and domain status (no A record).
4. Archive.org Integration:
Report Archive.org links as dead backlinks if desired, expanding your range of link-building possibilities.
5. Section-Specific Checks:
Customize your search by checking links only in the citation section or article body section of Wikipedia pages.
6. Editing Protection Filters:
Ignore Wikipedia pages with certain levels of editing protection, such as no protection, pending changes protection, semi-protection, extended protection, and full protection.
7. Export Results in CSV Format:
Seamlessly export your findings in CSV format for easy integration with your existing workflow.
How It Works:
Input Your Targets:
Provide a list of Wikipedia URLs or keywords relevant to your niche.
Configure Filters:
Fine-tune your search using intelligent filters to refine the results based on your specific criteria.
Run the Scan:
Let the Wikipedia Dead Backlink Finder work its magic, scanning Wikipedia for dead outbound links that match your criteria.
Strategic Link Building:
Identify Wikipedia pages with dead backlinks, edit them to point to similar content on your website, and watch your SEO rankings soar.
Take control of your SEO strategy with the Wikipedia Dead Backlink Finder. Maximize the potential of Wikipedia, the gold standard of online information, to boost your website's authority and climb the search engine rankings. Try it today and elevate your online presence to new heights!
Hello everybody, in this video I'll be showing you how to use our Wikipedia dead backlink finder tool. This tool allows you to find dead backlinks — that’s links from Wikipedia to websites that are no longer there or pages that are no longer available. You can then edit those and replace them with a more useful resource, such as a page on your own website that’s better than a dead link.
The reason you want backlinks from Wikipedia to your website is that, although they’re all nofollow, Wikipedia is a very trusted website. It’s great to have nofollow backlinks as part of your backlink profile because it makes it look much more natural than if you only have dofollow links pointing to your website.
Before we show you the tool in action, we’ll run through some of the settings. You can either check Wikipedia URLs for dead backlinks that you supply — you can put the Wikipedia URLs in — or you can enter a keyword (or multiple keywords), and we’ll use the Wikipedia search feature to find pages related to those keywords. In this example, we’ll just use one keyword: “cheese.”
Once you’ve entered your Wikipedia URLs or keywords, your next setting determines how many results you want to pull back — 20 or 50. If you choose 20, they’ll be more closely related to the keyword. If you choose 50, they might be slightly less related, but for something as popular as cheese, 50 results will still be relevant.
The next setting determines whether you want to check only the Wikipedia pages supplied, only the pages that come back from your search terms, or to go one level deep. “One level deep” means that every internal link on those pages will also be checked for dead links. That will give you more results, but they may be less accurate. For example, a page about cheese might link to a page about the town where cheese was invented, which could lead to less relevant dead links.
If you enter many keywords, pull back a lot of results, and go one level deep, you may end up with a large number of URLs. To make sure they stay relevant, you can use comma-separated keywords in a filter so that each URL checked must contain at least one of those keywords. For example, “cheese,” “cheeses,” or “cheese recipe.”
Next, you’ll see settings related to the level of protection on pages. Some very popular Wikipedia pages are protected to prevent people from editing and adding their own links. It’s best to leave these settings as they are. If a page has full protection, it’ll be difficult to add your link even if you’re replacing a dead one with a valuable working resource.
We’ll then choose where to check for dead backlinks: in the article body and in the citations at the bottom of the page. Sometimes when a link is dead, someone replaces it with a saved copy on archive.org (the Wayback Machine). We’ll ignore those for now and leave that setting as is so archive.org links are skipped.
Next, there’s an option to report all HTTP code 400 errors as dead backlinks. It’s best to leave that unchecked because if there are many backlinks to the same website, checking it repeatedly might cause servers to block us with a 401 or 403 error. That would make it look like a dead backlink when it’s not. Leaving this off means you’ll still get the important 404 errors showing pages that are truly gone.
There’s also a setting for connection errors. Sometimes websites block connections without returning an HTTP code. If you leave this setting enabled, it will only report a connection error if there’s also no A record (i.e., the domain itself has expired). This helps ensure you’re only seeing truly dead backlinks and not temporary blocks.
Another option is to report HTTP code 500 errors as dead backlinks. Pages that return 500 errors are often permanently down or have broken parameters, so it’s useful to include them.
Now that we’ve gone through all the settings, here’s what happens when we click Start. We’ve entered “cheese” as our keyword, so the tool will use Wikipedia’s search to pull back 20 pages related to cheese. It’ll then check all the outbound links on those pages to see if any are dead. We’re not crawling deeper, and we’re limiting results to 20 to keep them relevant.
After a few minutes, you’ll see a list of pages found for “cheese,” along with any dead backlinks discovered. You’ll see a mix of 404 errors showing that the Wikipedia page links to websites where the page is no longer available. If you open one of those links, you’ll see that the page really is gone. Some websites might even be completely offline.
You can click to view each page directly and confirm the dead link.
Hopefully, you can see how this is a great tool to find dead backlinks that you can replace with useful resources on your own site. These replacements tend to stick because you’re improving Wikipedia by replacing something useless (a dead link) with something valuable.
Wikipedia is a highly trusted website in the eyes of Google, and even though its backlinks are nofollow, they’re still valuable. Having a natural backlink profile that includes a mix of both dofollow and nofollow links from strong websites is very important for search engine rankings.
That concludes our video. Hope you find the tool useful — and as always, thank you for watching.
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