How to Check for Wikipedia Articles That Link to You

Wikipedia has quietly rolled out a special page that lets you unearth all of the pages that link to a particilar Web site or page. It even covers discussion and other miscellaneous pages that are embedded deep inside the site. For example, here's an index of pages from my blog that are in Wikipedia. Each found link points to the sourcing page. The reason this is important is that Wikipedia is filled with citations that never mention the source by name.

What's terrific about this tool is that you can run a link check for any top-level domain. This is powerful stuff. Take a look at the number of references to Google.com. You can also use this to measure the impact of a particular blog. For example, there are lots of references to Lifehacker. Last but not least, per my recent post, be sure to look for links to your corporate and brand sites. Here's a list of pages that link to Kelloggs.com.

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