On 8/19/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Internal links
are definitely a significant part of why Wikipedia
pages rank so high. There are lots of Wikipedia pages which rank high
for a term and have *no* external links to it. I'm not sure if it's a
good idea or not, but it's certainly true.
High enough to be a top result?
Yeah. Oskar gave one example.
Remember, Google's job is not to be fair or to reduce work for
Wikipedia admins. If a ranking strategy on average gives better
results, it doesn't matter if there are a few cases where it fails.
If people start abusing this, Wikipedia can always turn on nofollow
for internal links.