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Wikidata: the entity SEO secret

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Wikidata is the knowledge base behind Google Knowledge Graph, Apple Intelligence, ChatGPT and Perplexity. Being there = existing.

Notability criteria

Wikidata accepts any 'identifiable' entity: company, person, product. No need to be Wikipedia-notable.

The 8 key properties

P31 (instance of), P17 (country), P159 (HQ), P856 (official website), P1581 (founded), P112 (founder), P452 (industry), P2002 (X handle).

sameAs linkage

Once the entry is created, linking your Organization schema via sameAs triggers entity recognition within 4-6 weeks.

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