---
title: "wikipedia.org backlink value: $221 per link — mxverify"
url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/wikipedia.org
description: "A followed link from wikipedia.org is worth $221 by BV 2.2 (link type A, nofollow). 1 placed link audited. Hosted on WIKIMEDIA (US). Domain registered 2001."
site: mxverify
generated: 2026-09-25T16:53:50.821Z
---

Site report · audited

# wikipedia.org

We have audited 1 placed link on wikipedia.org — too few to state rates. Its domain was registered in 2001.

Last updated 25 September 2026 · [Visit wikipedia.org](https://wikipedia.org/)

## Where each figure comes from

| Figure | Source | What it covers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wikipedia.org#value) | BV 2.2 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site |
| [Links bought here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wikipedia.org#links) | bklink audits | 1 link checked on the page, latest 11 Sept 2026 Thin sample |
| [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wikipedia.org#reading) | Read by mxverify | 2029 links to other sites in 10 articles, published Oct 2001 – Sept 2024; read 25 Sept 2026 Strong sample |
| [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wikipedia.org#traffic) | TabAPI | Estimated visits for Aug 2026, as of 25 Sept 2026 |
| [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wikipedia.org#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 11 Sept 2026; the rating itself is not shown |
| [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wikipedia.org#server) | DNS and ASN registry | 103.102.166.224 · WIKIMEDIA |
| [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wikipedia.org#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 13 Jan 2001 |

## Backlink value

[BV **$221** per link · level A · nofollow · strength 95](https://bklink.uk/methodology#bv)

A followed editorial link from wikipedia.org would be worth up to $1,829 under BV 2.2, before relevance: its Site Strength is 95 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level A (an editorial citation), but 97% of its links are nofollow, so it is worth about $221 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $111 and $277.

- **Site Strength**: **95** / 100, in steps of 5 · half the site's authority rating, half its organic traffic on a log scale; 100 is the strongest site on the web. Traffic: estimated monthly organic visits, TabAPI, 25 September 2026.
- **Worth up to**: $1,829 · a followed editorial link at this strength, before relevance (×0.5 unrelated to ×1.25 same topic) — see [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how)
- **Usual link type**: Level A — counted · **nofollow** on 97% of its links → ×0.12 Read by Jev from our own reading of wikipedia.org's homepage and 10 articles; 97% of the links those articles make to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc, and BV caps that share of a new link at C. None of the links audited here has a link type on record.
- **Relevance to your site**: ×1 · neutral here; in an audit it runs from ×0.5 (unrelated) to ×1.25 (same topic)
- **BV score**: **$221** per link
- **Domain registered**: 13 January 2001 · shown for context; BV does not price on age

### A link from wikipedia.org, by link type

The same site is worth very different amounts depending on the link it gives you. This is what each level is worth here.

| Level | What it is | Factor | Value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A — Counted · nofollow here | An editorial citation: the site linked because it is useful to its readers. | ×1 | $1,829 |
| B — May be discounted | A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing. | ×0.5 | $915 |
| C — Usually neutralised | A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link. | ×0.1 | $183 |
| D — Network | A site on a server whose sites show footprints of one owner, a link farm, or machine-generated pages. | ×0.05 | $91 |

97% of wikipedia.org's links are nofollow, so a new link from it — an editorial citation — is priced at ×0.12: $221, where a followed one would be worth $1,829. BV prices the ranking value a link passes, and a nofollow link passes little.

## How wikipedia.org links out

Read by mxverify on 25 September 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (10 linked from its homepage). This is our own reading of the site, not a vendor's figure, and it is what places a new link on the A–D scale until links bought here are audited.

Strong sample 2029 links to other sites across 10 articles published Oct 2001 – Sept 2024. Strong takes six or more articles and thirty or more links, spread over at least two months where the articles are dated.

**Links its articles make to other sites**

- Followed 2.5%
- Nofollow 97%
- Sponsored 0%
- User-generated (ugc) 0%

2029 links to other sites across 10 articles, share buttons left out. BV counts 97% of a new link's weight at most C, because that share of the site's own links is nofollow, sponsored or ugc.

**What its homepage offers**

No guest-post, sponsored-post or advertising pages linked from the homepage.

### Articles read

| Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [List of Wikipedia mobile apps - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_mobile_applications) | Jun 2011 | 1,867 | 69 | 7 | — |
| [Wikipedia - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia) | — | 27,676 | 562 | 30 | — |
| [Free content - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content) | Oct 2001 | 6,117 | 135 | 1 | — |
| [English language - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language) | — | 27,087 | 246 | 1 | — |
| [2024 East–West Line disruption - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_East%E2%80%93West_Line_disruption) | Sept 2024 | 6,222 | 106 | 3 | — |
| [East–West Line (Singapore) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Line_(Singapore)) | Jan 2004 | 12,431 | 241 | 1 | — |
| [Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Rapid_Transit_(Singapore)) | Dec 2003 | 21,917 | 465 | 4 | — |
| [List of railroad truck parts - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_railroad_truck_parts) | Nov 2014 | 1,254 | 23 | 0 | — |
| [Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_Heavy_Industries_C151) | Aug 2005 | 7,487 | 108 | 1 | — |
| [Clementi MRT station - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementi_MRT_station) | May 2005 | 3,152 | 74 | 3 | — |

Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level **A** — A 95%, B 0%, C 5.0%, D 0%. Put together with what kind of site it is, how established it is, whether it sells placements and how it links out, a new link here is priced as A 2.3%, B 0.1%, C 98%, D 0%.

Jev reads it as a reference work or institution (100%), major as a source (100%), and not selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (96%).

## Traffic

Traffic estimates for Aug 2026 from TabAPI, as of 25 September 2026.

- **3.5B** monthly visits +6.5% since Jun 2026
- **2.7B** from organic search 77% of visits
- **#11** global rank
- **#14** rank in US

- **53%** bounce rate
- **3.3** pages per visit
- **3m 15s** time on site

**Monthly visits**

Jun 2026: 3.3B visits; Jul 2026: 3.5B visits; Aug 2026: 3.5B visits

**Where visitors come from**

- Organic search 77%
- Direct 16%
- Referrals 3.2%
- Social 2.8%
- AI assistants 0.5%
- Email 0.1%
- Paid 0.1%
- Affiliate and other 0%

Share of all visits. Organic search is highlighted: it is the traffic BV prices on.

**Top countries**

- United States 27%
- Japan 6.2%
- United Kingdom 5.8%
- Germany 5.3%
- France 4.1%
- Other countries 52%

**Top search keywords**

| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Traffic value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| instagram | 79.4M | $0.40 | $10.2M |
| youtube | 317.2M | $0.19 | $9.5M |
| facebook | 107.1M | $0.73 | $7.9M |
| twitter | 37M | $1.08 | $6.7M |
| hayden panettiere | 11.2M | $0.51 | $6.2M |

Traffic value: what the keyword's visits would cost as search ads, per month.

### AI assistants

AI assistants sent about **18.7M** visits in Aug 2026 — 0.5% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:

ChatGPT Gemini Perplexity

ChatGPT: Jun 2026 52%, Jul 2026 54%, Aug 2026 53%; Gemini: Jun 2026 14%, Jul 2026 20%, Aug 2026 34%; Perplexity: Jun 2026 4.3%, Jul 2026 5.8%, Aug 2026 6.2%

| Assistant | Jun 2026 | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ChatGPT | 52% | 54% | 53% |
| Gemini | 14% | 20% | 34% |
| Perplexity | 4.3% | 5.8% | 6.2% |

Traffic estimates by TabAPI. BV uses only the organic-search figure.

## How its links behaved

- **1** links audited
- **1** pages we could not read

Fewer than 3 readable audited links — too few for percentages to mean anything.

Latest audit 11 September 2026. Each link counts once, at its most recent audit.

## Hosting

- **Server address**: 103.102.166.224
- **Hosting network**: WIKIMEDIA · AS14907
- **Server country**: US
- **Domain registered**: 13 January 2001

## Server and network

No other publication in the directory runs on 103.102.166.224. 0 publications are on the same hosting network (WIKIMEDIA, AS14907).

- **0** other publications on the same server
- **0** on the same hosting network

## Limitations: what this report does not show

- Only 1 link has been audited here — a sample too small to describe the publication as a whole.
- 1 audited page could not be read and is left out of the rates rather than guessed.
- A link that is followed is not necessarily a link search engines value; this record does not measure rankings or traffic.
- The BV score is what one new followed link from wikipedia.org is worth to rankings, from its Site Strength and the kind of link on offer. It is not a price, and it does not predict what a link will do for a particular site: relevance to that site moves it between half and one and a quarter times.
- Traffic figures come from a third-party traffic source, named with its date in the evidence box above; no one outside a site sees its analytics.

Compiled from [bklink.uk](https://bklink.uk/) audits · maintained by [Palash Bagchi](https://mxverify.uk/about) · updated 25 September 2026

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Source: mxverify, "wikipedia.org backlink value: $221 per link — mxverify", https://mxverify.uk/publications/wikipedia.org (retrieved 2026-09-25). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology