[WikiEN-l] How to sabotage Wikipedia, for SEO spammers

[Durova]

Has anyone stopped to ask whether this is really worth it to the SEO?  In
terms of labor and cost/benefit?

Suppose for discussion that this works.  At most, it puts a very small part
of an extremely well known website slightly lower in the rankings.  I doubt
it's a valid assumption that if some unknown site is number 3 in the
rankings and WP dips down to number 4, large numbers of people who would
otherwise have gone to the most popular reference site on the Internet will
migrate to the unknown site.

Brand value counts for something.  When I'm browsing Google News and *The
New York Times* appears fourth in the listings while a small town newspaper
pops up at third, I'm still more likely to click on the *Times* article.
Especially if I'm in a hurry.

-Durova

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:59 PM,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> > I haven't read the article, but they are saying to do this *just* to
>  knock a
> > page off the front page of Google hits ?
> > I don't really understand the motivation.
>
> If WP is #1 or #2 and your spamvertisment is #4 you can increase your
> income greatly by getting WP delisted even if you can do nothing to
> improve the position of your site.
>
> There are far more effective techniques that these SEO scummbags have
> not figured out yet.
>
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