[WikiEN-l] SEOs on doing stupid Wikipedia tricks (for the bored)

[Anthony]

On 8/19/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/08/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSi60Zj6JXU
> >
> > Some idiot, somewhere, is going to think this is a good idea.
>
> Does that even work? Surely Google isn't stupid enough to give
> internal links a significant weight? Wikipedia ranks highly because
> whenever someone mentions a new topic they almost always give a link
> to the appropriate Wikipedia page for people to find out more about
> it. I very much doubt internal links have much to do with it.
>
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.