Comments on: Google Sending Wikipedia A Ton Of Traffic http://searchengineland.com/google-sending-wikipedia-a-ton-of-traffic-10544 Search Engine Land: News On Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Fri, 25 May 2012 21:27:00 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: W3 Search http://searchengineland.com/google-sending-wikipedia-a-ton-of-traffic-10544/comment-page-1#comment-1224 W3 Search Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:00:42 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/google-sending-wikipedia-a-ton-of-traffic-10544.php#comment-1224 One thought -- I am certain that wiki results went up as soon as they added "nofollow" commands to every off-site link. In many non-commercial searches, say history related, wiki results went up from 7th to 3rd or from 5th to 1st, etc., in google. It is sad that wiki's answer to their spam link problems was to destroy their editors' rights to add good sites in a way that helped the sites. One thought — I am certain that wiki results went up as soon as they added “nofollow” commands to every off-site link. In many non-commercial searches, say history related, wiki results went up from 7th to 3rd or from 5th to 1st, etc., in google. It is sad that wiki’s answer to their spam link problems was to destroy their editors’ rights to add good sites in a way that helped the sites.

]]> By: LeeAnn Prescott http://searchengineland.com/google-sending-wikipedia-a-ton-of-traffic-10544/comment-page-1#comment-1223 LeeAnn Prescott Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:28:32 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/google-sending-wikipedia-a-ton-of-traffic-10544.php#comment-1223 Correction on the second bullet point: 70% of Wikipedia's total traffic came from search engines, 50% of total traffic from Google, so <b>Google was responsible for 71% of Wikipedia's search engine visits.</b> Correction on the second bullet point:
70% of Wikipedia’s total traffic came from search engines, 50% of total traffic from Google, so Google was responsible for 71% of Wikipedia’s search engine visits.

]]> By: AdamJusko http://searchengineland.com/google-sending-wikipedia-a-ton-of-traffic-10544/comment-page-1#comment-1222 AdamJusko Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:54:59 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/google-sending-wikipedia-a-ton-of-traffic-10544.php#comment-1222 It would be interesting to see if Wikipedia has enough of a "brand" now to hold up on its own if it didn't so well in the search engines, especially Google. I don't know if it would, but it really doesn't have to worry, because for so many searches, Wikipedia does offer the best overview of a topic. That said, Google gives Wikipedia a lot of credit as a trusted site and gives it high rankings even for Wikipedia pages that are crappy and uninformative. The whole "trusted site" thing is where Google has a weakness---even if a site is trusted, that doesn't mean that every page it publishes is genius. It would be interesting to see if Wikipedia has enough of a “brand” now to hold up on its own if it didn’t so well in the search engines, especially Google. I don’t know if it would, but it really doesn’t have to worry, because for so many searches, Wikipedia does offer the best overview of a topic.

That said, Google gives Wikipedia a lot of credit as a trusted site and gives it high rankings even for Wikipedia pages that are crappy and uninformative. The whole “trusted site” thing is where Google has a weakness—even if a site is trusted, that doesn’t mean that every page it publishes is genius.

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