How to Get Free Advertising for Your Business on Wikimmunity

You may have already heard about how to make money writing for Wikimmunity -- but did you know you can also use Wikimmunity to get free advertising for your business?

Wikimmunity is a fairly new website, concentrating on making information available on local communities, organizations, businesses, events, and other people, places, and things. That means it's a great resource for getting information out to the public on your brick and mortar business, and the Wikimmunity people are actively encouraging businesses to list their information on the site.

Publishing information on Wikimmunity is fairly easy. You first have to sign up as an "affiliate" -- of course, there's no cost or obligation to do anything. Then you're ready to publish your article, and of course there are a few regulations about what you can and cannot publish.

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The article must be a minimum of 200 words. That's minimum, mind you. When was the last time you had a problem thinking of 200 words to tell about how great your business is? As far as I know, there's no maximum as to how much you can write. (I suppose it's possible they might cut you off if you ramble too much, but I'm sure you don't want to do that anyway.)

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You cannot list street addresses or phone numbers. I would imagine this is because it could create some kind of conflict of interest with their paid advertisers. I don't believe that there is any restriction about giving a general description of your locale, however. An example of how to do that might be "founded in 1936, ABC Bakery can be found at the corner of Main and Fourth Street," or "Joe's Transmission Shop is located on 14-Mile Road just east of I-75."

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You can link your article to your website! Your website will have lots more information about your business (including, presumably, your address and phone number.)