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Beating Wikipedia Number 1 pages...

by Gunsblazen
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Say you find a niche and a wikipedia entry is number 1. How do you beat it? Is this a sign of very little competition for this keyword? Or is wikipedia just tough to dislodge?
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  • Profile picture of the author TheArticlePros
    From what my mentor tells me, he just ignored Wikipedia. If WP is #1 and he can rank #2, #3, and #4, then he's happy.

    Double-check your keywords to make sure that you have "buying" keywords and not just "informational" keywords, though.

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  • Profile picture of the author Melkor
    If you're working for Google you can go in and manually adjust the SERPS to make sure a Google property outranks wikipedia. Otherwise, forget about it.
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    • Profile picture of the author sarakelly72
      Originally Posted by Melkor View Post

      If you're working for Google you can go in and manually adjust the SERPS to make sure a Google property outranks wikipedia. Otherwise, forget about it.
      yes, you are right.
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  • Profile picture of the author Will Edwards
    Originally Posted by Gunsblazen View Post

    Is this a sign of very little competition for this keyword? Or is wikipedia just tough to dislodge?
    Sadly, it's the latter.

    Will
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  • Profile picture of the author Premier Plugins
    Dislodging Wikipedia is like beating Chuck Norris in a fight. You can dream about doing it, but it will never happen.
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  • Profile picture of the author Henri Lind
    Its not hard to outrank wikipedia, but its not easy too.

    I have many-many sites that outrank wikipedia, history.com, yahoo, medicinet etcetc.
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  • Profile picture of the author jwmann2
    Wikipedia is the classic example of why having a high page rank is still important. It gives you authority in the search results. Wikipedia could publish any article, have it indexed immediately and rank on the first page for those keywords almost immediately as well. What pisses me off is when a Youtube video is outranking you on the first page.
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  • Profile picture of the author GMT
    Google absolutesly loves Wikipedia(as they should), so some things can be pretty difficult to outrank Wikipedia in. I wish Wikipedia fixed their internal search, it's pretty bad IMHO, so much so I just use Google to search them...heh.
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    • Profile picture of the author amacg
      Originally Posted by GMT View Post

      Google absolutesly loves Wikipedia(as they should), so some things can be pretty difficult to outrank Wikipedia in. I wish Wikipedia fixed their internal search, it's pretty bad IMHO, so much so I just use Google to search them...heh.
      Wikipedia content is obviously amazing, and credit to Google/others for promoting their content as it's much non-commercial. I think their internal search isn't the best either but they're operating with slightly less resources than Google I'd imagine.
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      • Profile picture of the author Gunsblazen
        Originally Posted by amacg View Post

        Wikipedia content is obviously amazing, and credit to Google/others for promoting their content as it's much non-commercial. I think their internal search isn't the best either but they're operating with slightly less resources than Google I'd imagine.

        I agree. However, if you get say, the number two spot behind wikipedia at least you would be the first COMMERCIAL interest on page 1. So as for traffic, should be good right?
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