Comments on: SEO question – why does Google give so much weight to Wikipedia in the SERPs? http://www.fusednation.com/general/humour/seo-question-why-does-google-give-so-much-weight-to-wikipedia-in-the-serps/ Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Blog and UK Online Marketing News, Gossip and Rants. Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:58:41 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Marketing Guy http://www.fusednation.com/general/humour/seo-question-why-does-google-give-so-much-weight-to-wikipedia-in-the-serps/comment-page-1/#comment-2390 Marketing Guy Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:50:27 +0000 http://www.fusednation.com/general/humour/seo-question-why-does-google-give-so-much-weight-to-wikipedia-in-the-serps/#comment-2390 Ah but not always the case Scott - many less competitive areas are fairly easy to grab links from without fear of angry mob justice style of "moderation". IMO, one of the core reasons that Wikipedia appears in many SERPs is that SEOs churn out articles for link building purposes and link out to WP with keywords to seem "authoritative". Wikipedia is the friendly gay bloke that you don't mind your girlfriend hanging out with. Nice and non threatening - link away freely and even if you face Wikipedia competition in a SERP, it's one less competitor to worry about. ;) Scott Ah but not always the case Scott – many less competitive areas are fairly easy to grab links from without fear of angry mob justice style of “moderation”.

IMO, one of the core reasons that Wikipedia appears in many SERPs is that SEOs churn out articles for link building purposes and link out to WP with keywords to seem “authoritative”.

Wikipedia is the friendly gay bloke that you don’t mind your girlfriend hanging out with. Nice and non threatening – link away freely and even if you face Wikipedia competition in a SERP, it’s one less competitor to worry about. ;)

Scott

]]> By: longboarder77 http://www.fusednation.com/general/humour/seo-question-why-does-google-give-so-much-weight-to-wikipedia-in-the-serps/comment-page-1/#comment-2388 longboarder77 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:31:58 +0000 http://www.fusednation.com/general/humour/seo-question-why-does-google-give-so-much-weight-to-wikipedia-in-the-serps/#comment-2388 Self moderation and the .org domain combined with the size of the non commercial site all sits firmly inline with Google's origins as the 1st search engine to consider link popularity (Google originally being called BackRub) - If there is a link on Wikipedia that shouldn't be there - you can be certain that it wont be there for long- Oh so wonderfully Web 2.0! Self moderation and the .org domain combined with the size of the non commercial site all sits firmly inline with Google’s origins as the 1st search engine to consider link popularity (Google originally being called BackRub) – If there is a link on Wikipedia that shouldn’t be there – you can be certain that it wont be there for long- Oh so wonderfully Web 2.0!

]]> By: AjiNIMC http://www.fusednation.com/general/humour/seo-question-why-does-google-give-so-much-weight-to-wikipedia-in-the-serps/comment-page-1/#comment-2276 AjiNIMC Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:27:38 +0000 http://www.fusednation.com/general/humour/seo-question-why-does-google-give-so-much-weight-to-wikipedia-in-the-serps/#comment-2276 Very simple, have a look at my post http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/wikipedia-serp/ Very simple, have a look at my post http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/wikipedia-serp/

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