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Wikipedia is dominating search rankings across the board, and in more categories than any other single organization. It has really grown out of control. They literally show up for everything now (rank position #7 in Google, 4 in Yahoo, 11 & 12 in MSN for “everything”).
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"giving them their own special listing" What if another wiki based encyclopedia comes along that is better? Id prefer they get no special treatment.
I appreciated the idea; also would prefer not to see Wikipedia in the top ten results all the time. I often search for Wikipedia articles in other ways - so I dont need to see the results in search engines.
SPAM = site positioned above mine. This is one of the weakest submits Ive ever seen on Sphinn. Will SEOs please stop whining? If you cant outrank Wikipedia wtf can you outrank?
If they treat Wikipedia differently, either removing it from the results (what for) or giving it a special listing, itll open a path for similarly authoritative sites to go this way. Do you want your authoritative site to be removed from the SERPs, just because its too good and ranks across the board? Do you want your competitors to complain about you to Google?
Wikipedia is a terrific resource. It beats the crap out of ODP and remember when ODP used to dominate the SERPS? Then the domain spammers came along. Now weve got Wikipedia to beat and so be it. Id rather be outranked by Wikipedia than www.my-dogs-porno-with-the-neighbours-dog.com any day. Oh and half - please dont lump all SEOs together as though we have one collective brain. Some of us think for ourselves you know.
A couple of questions: 1. Why does the author of this article assume that Wikipedia has been given some special "authority" by Google? 2. Isnt it possible, and more likely that the pages that rank well on wikipedia do so because they are better SEOed than other pages that they outrank? BTW, they also rank (3rd) for nothing.
"Oh and half - please dont lump all SEOs together as though we have one collective brain." Kalena, my bad. I dont really believe all SEOs think alike. Im just a little fed up with reading post after post complaining about things that arent going to change.
"Do you want your authoritative site to be removed from the SERPs, just because its too good and ranks across the board? Do you want your competitors to complain about you to Google?" This about sums it my feelings on the matter. I dont know about everyone else, but when I search for something that I need information about, and a Wikipedia result comes up, it usually contains the information I was searching for. Lets not forget the core purpose of a search engine.
The problem isnt Wikipedia - its seriously well referenced, and thats pretty much what the algos taking into account. At least Wikpedia mainly sticks to single listings, though, unlike certain other sites (ebay, and a raft of classifieds sites) which are gumming up the SERPs with subdomains. IMO Wikipedia listings offer a choice to users - but subdomain spamming seeks to take away that choice. 2c.