What SEO Practitioners Can Learn from Wikipedia

[shaneyward]

Wikipedia seems to have a achieved a minor SEO miracle: its pages are often at the top of Google's search engine results for a huge diversity of topics. How did they do it? More importantly, what techniques is Wikipedia using that you can use on your own website for effective SEO and website promotion?

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia. It is still one of the leading online information resources, with over 77,300,000 indexed pages in Google. Wikipedia also earned more than 680 million visitors annually by April 2008, according to this source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wikipedi ... 5703.shtml.

Also, according to this study, 96.6% of Wikipedia's pages are ranking on the first page of Google. What is great about Wikipedia is that it is community-generated content, and a non-profit website consisting of writers from all around the world. The massive traffic and page views provided by Google to Wikipedia are a success in terms of search engine optimization. So what can SEO practitioners learn from this success?

[VladTepes]

Site owners should learn it is legitimate content and giving information entirely for readers benefit are recognized well by Google.

[Jennifer21]

Thanks for sharing this valuable information source here. Google is always want good quality content.