Another way to get some links that will aid your site’s rankings and deliver traffic would be to write a few “Top 100″ posts on your site. An article with good content, pictures, and quality information titled “Top 100 Things to do NY City” could bait a lot of links. Write the article, make sure it is catchy and has pictures and submit it to all the top social bookmarking sites out there and watch the links and traffic roll in. I would also add a “Hottest Articles” category to your blog’s right navigation area with a direct link to that article. This will increase the search exposure and place the article one click away from the home page. Lastly, I would include links from the Top 100 post to articles already on your site that talk about the same information. This will help drive the search spiders back to old articles, and keep visitors on the site longer.

Getting links directly to your site from Wikipedia can deliver good traffic flows, but it can also be tricky to get past the active editors. In your case, I would then visit Wikipedia and find as many articles as possible that relate to your Top 100 and add content to the pages. Don’t just start adding links, rather add content. As you move through your list, you will find topics that are not yet covered in the Wiki. These are perfect opportunities for you to add new pages to Wikipedia and include that occasional link back to your Top 100 guide. Then, look for opportunities to go back to all the above articles and link some of them to your new Wiki posts. This will allow you to add your links to pages that are not being constantly monitored by editors and send traffic funneling through Wiki to the pages that you are the main contributor to.

Do the above and I can all but guarantee you will see results.

For other people reading this comment: Use some of these suggestions on your own sites and share your results here!

Getting links from Wikipedia will only bring traffic, not link juice for Google.
-Yes, that was one of the reason we aded links but “editors” removed the loinks within days. We then created the article instead which they were fine with and it stayed for months. We then received traffic from Canadians and always thru wikipedia and while using Google.ca, we discovered what had happened.

We’ll implement the “div based” codes you mentioned in another post and thanks again.

We had to then delete the article but it is too late now as the SE’s still have it indexed. Thanks to tips on zachgraeve.com, the PS our PR is improving again and is back to #2 and we hope it will get to PR6 or more in the future.

Also, links from wikipedia has the rel=”nofollow” tag so in our humble opinion, its futile in doing so.