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 9– Cross Linking–Getting online traffic to your page

To get Wikipedia online traffic reading your article why not create a link to your article from another related article. Click edit, add a sentence about your article, then create an internal link. You don’t want an orphaned article. If you want to see what articles are linking to your article click on the side tool bar What links here link. More information about lonely pages can be found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Special:LonelyPages.

10–Statistics–How many people are looking at your article?

So you have made a Wikipedia article, aren’t you interested to see how many people have read your article?

1 It’s easy; load your page on the Wikipedia website or find it through My Contributions.

2 Click on View History

3 Near the top of your page you will have links to the following statistical reports, however the main ones to have a look at have been highlighted with a *

10. Revision History Statistics *

10. Revision History Search

10. Contributions

10. User edits

10. Number of watches *

10. Page view statistics *

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