The usual meme surrounding pagerank tells that templates and metatags don’t matter as much as the words being used in links. So if I have good PageRank and I write a blog post about ipods and link to Wikipedia on the word “ipod”, I have raised the rank of that particular page when someone googles “ipod”.

Surely you could try to analyze how people are linking to the Banana article at Wikipedia opposed to how they are linking to Banana Republic for example.

It shouldn’t at least be hard to do some empirical research on this. Time consuming maybe.

Whenever I’m looking something up, I make sure to put wiki at the end, because for the most part, wikipedia has the best articles pertaining to my topic.

Wikipedia has several good points. Not only it is fundamental in everybody’s culture (whenever there is something I have to check, the first place I’m looking to IS Wikipedia), not only in English, but in another dozen of Western languages, as well, but there is much more to it, from the software that is available to everyone to the prestige that being a contributor brings.

Wikipedia certainly is one of the most consulted sites on Earth, and the information it contains is in average very reliable, as far as I can see, and it is also one of the most linked sites…

It is not only a matter of PageRank, a factor that is nowadays only a showcase that matters little, but rather a concentration of many factors, like TrustRank, incoming traffic and links that give to Wikipedia the very high rank in Google’s results.

A very deserved one IMHO…

Alex

Great topic, there has been much discussion on this of recent, in fact there is a wiki advertising portal, that is structured in much the same way as a wikipedia. Its information ranks much higher in search results, there a recent video.

http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/search-engine-secrets/4210039/ and many articles on the portal, just google whynotad.

Whats interesting is the way they use the technology to get a higher search listing, many seo have commented on the smart programming of this new wiki free advertising portal.

Just like a wiki the information is given its own programming and it feeds google what it needs to place the information at a much higher search listing. And the search match is a direct hit with the information.

Many people have there eye on this site - one very quick example go to google.com and search for “samsung versace” its ranked 2 or ‘kelly jones fight’ ranked number 1

And the site has been banned because of its smart programming http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200710/1192615155.html

People are seriously watching this new wiki programming because of its capability to produce a more relevant search result.

I agree with Addi. When I post to my English language teaching and learning blogs, I try to link to several external sites to help boost my page rankings and reciprocal traffic. Not necessarily to wiki (although that’s a great idea), but to other relevant sites like YouTube or Meta for a related video (whether it’s mine or not), Tumblr.com for it’s marvelous scrapbooking features, other sites and blogs I like that are directly related, even Facebook on occassion. If possible, I’ll try for up to ten or twelve external links to each post (time-consuming sometimes but worth it), but always have at least three to five links for each and every post. This really has helped me out a lot.

When you talk of Wikipedia (in terms of Google) you need only to understand that Wikipedia is considered to be a very authoritative site. This is for several reasons:

* Its a primary source of knowledge
* Its strong anti-spam and anti-commercial policies keep it ‘clean’
* Many, many, many web sites link to Wikipedia.

I was one of the fortunate ones who one day saw a ton of traffic coming in from Wikipedia. One of the free software projects that I work on often created an article there and linked to my site as a major proponent and contributor. I did not expect this, however I’m not going to complain :)

Unfortunately, this phenomenon has led to many self-promotional entries on Wikipedia that keep those of us who edit quite busy negating spamvertisements. Its amazing what people will do to increase their page rank, they see Wikipedia as the ‘viagra’ of page rank.

I used to Google my definitions. Now I Wikipedia them..

i’am personaly choose to create a link to wikipedia as referred resources online. And i’m sure many others blogger and webdeveloper creating backlink into wiki’s url address. I think that contribute a good part on wiki’s high rank result.

I believe in two points:
- Wikipedia’s templates are good at SEO;
- But, most imporant: there are hugh external links to Wikipedia.

Almost every site in the web points to something (or a lot of stuff) in Wikipedia.

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