Visitors from Wikipedia?

I've spent most of the day finding out where I get my visitors from and I noticed something really weird in one of my site logs. During September I got 11 visitors from Wikipedia. More exact from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_development .

I checked that page and can't find any links to my site, so how can I have gotten 11 visitors from Wikipedia?

/Andreas

Sometimes it happens to my site as well. Still don't know how.

Have you checked the history of the page? Maybe someone put a link to your site on there and it got edited out again later...

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Have you checked the history of the page? Maybe someone put a link to your site on there and it got edited out again later...

That's the one thing that may happened.

The other is a little strange, but it happened to me before some months, when I got thousands of visitors from wikipedia, and by analyzing this traffic I realized that it was fake traffic (actually it was referer spam)

I guess that this referer spammer was trying to get people to a page of wiki that he/she "planted" some links. Maybe that's the case (the "personal development" market uses a lot of black hat techniques for promotion....)

I checked the history of the page and it looks like most of the external links where removed in October so I guess it may be correct about the "plantet" links.

Just too bad that anyone can edit wikipedia, because there are way too much spam and false information.

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