for most search item, Wikipedia on top one postion

Obviously backlink or regular factor do not work here. so does authority site do play role in seo?

 

Being an authority site is the main factor in SEO.

The only way you get to be an authority site is by having loads of quality backlinks.

 

Wikipedia is seen as a trusted site/source. This has a great positive impact on its search results position.

 

yes agree with you

 

Wikipedia is owned by google , i guess thats why , also they introduced a new way of searching , so that the top 10 results are a blog a forum a wiki a gallery a news post etc etc alot of different sources so that the serps got some more variaty

 

yeah, it's a big factor on seo.

being authority means being a trusted site on search engines eyes

 

Um, what? Wikipedia is owned by G? Top ten results are from a variety of page types?

Please let us know where you got this information.

 

Is it true that G owns Wikipedia?

 

i saw their link on yahoo web directory may be thats the reason

over here

http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Rock_and_Pop/Spears__Britney/

may be they are using directories for optimizing

 

No wikipedia is owened by the wikimedia foundation a not for profit.

 

Not really. Wikipedia doesn't really have an SEO stratergy. It never really needed one.

 

I'm 100% sure wikipedia was started as a 'not for profit', and I hadn't heard of a sale.
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The 2005 'Wired' article about Wikipedia:

Pretty interesting (especially if your a 'geek')

"To many guardians of the knowledge cathedral - librarians, lexicographers, academics - that's precisely the problem. Who died and made this guy professor?"

Enjoy

 

....Wikipedia isn't owned by G. It is owned foundation, don't worry about the idea of biased thought. Jimmy Wales is obsessed with no ads, no profit, Google would COVER Wikipedia with ads.

 

Sometime ago ,there was some news that Google offered to host Wikipedia.

Google wants to Host Wikipedia or its Content

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/tech/google-wikipedia-hosting-40554.html

Wikipedia is totally independent of Google.

 

Backlinks to wikipedia articles = the main factor. There are lot of them. Also Wikipedia articles has not only ordinary backlinks, but lot of backlinks from authority sites. So it's the main reason.

 

but yahoo wont be so generous to wiki to wave off thier $300

 

I appreciate the fact that Wikipedia is for no profit but relies on public donations, however sometimes they dominate so many keywords on search results that I wonder why should we still go to G or Y to search, might as well head direct to wikipedia.

 

Google love Wikipedia more than any other site.