On 8/19/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@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.