Ann Smarty, of Search Engine Journal, today released a review of WikiWix, a search engine that allows you to filter through various aspects of top Wikis.  Using the filtering capabilities of WikiWix, Ann breaks down how this tool can be utilized as a tool for keyword research.

For the sake of having it explained well, I’ve reposted a piece of the directions, including a link to Ann’s post:

Let’s say [diabetes] is our base word we want to research, so we search it on WikiWix to get the following:

1. The list of all Wikipedia articles associated with the word. Each listing contains a short abstract from the Wikipedia page, the date and time when the entry was last modified and the page external links (!).

Additionally: You can click “Associated categories” to see the list of related topics for each listing:

2.Related terms taken from Wiktionary:

3. Related entries from Wikisource;

Read more about Ann’s great insight to using this tool for keyword research.

I personally, have developed much of my internal linking theory for content based web sites, such as article directories, news portals, and information sites from portions of the internal linking with wikis.