What to do if Wikipedia passes you on the search rankings
Ideas, SEO October 17th, 2008What should you do if your site gets passed in Google by the one and only Wikipedia? With their authority, it’s often nearly impossible to outrank them for some keywords. It may be a daunting task to outrank them, but there are still a few things you can do.
What I’d do is find other Wikipedia articles that are live-linking to the fore-mentioned Wikipedia article and remove that link wherever possible. Although Wikipedia links may be no-follow going outbound, they are still do-follow when interlinking on their own site - so those links they have are passing a lot of authority. Do whatever you can to nuke them!
You can also try and slip your link somewhere on that Wikipedia page. This might be hard to do, depending on how heavily edited that Wiki page is. If your link continually gets removed, try first building up an edit history and then try adding your link. If you have a better reputation, your link might just stay up there!





October 23rd, 2008 at 7:54 pm
In my experience, if Wikipedia outranks you…. move on.
A couple of years ago we used to say “if wiki is on page 1 of a search term, then it’s easy for you to get on page 1″. Now wikipedia has so much authority, they are a guarantee page 1 for almost all search terms.
October 26th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Wikipedia is one of the EASIEST sites to out-rank.
The only reason they rank high is because google loves DMOZ and Wikipedia is a partner of DMOZ. Most of wikis pages are in DMOZ, but, if you have a good-linking strategy in place its easy to beat.
Why make it sound so hard to do?
Learn SEO and you can beat wikipedia.
@David - while your ‘moving on’, ill be stealing your lunch money on thoes keywords =]
January 11th, 2009 at 11:42 am
hmm..nice idea on it. But hoe to put the link on wikipedia article? Anybodies know about it?
May 19th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Yes, I think we can beat wikipedia, because we focus on the keyword, and build backlinks with the keyword.