Help! Wikihow is constantly outranking me with low quality articles
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My problem and irritation with this ranking change is this:
1) Many times the first 3 or 4 consecutive articles ranking on Google for a certain search term are ALL from Wikihow. I mean, whatever happened to results diversity?
2) Some of these articles barely have a loose version of the search phrase in their title or content. And they're not very relevant.
3) Almost all these article are of very poor quality. I'm sure that when it comes to searches like how to tie a tie or how to save a document, Wikihow may have some decent articles to serve. But I'm talking about more complex topics, which require some level of expertise, and the articles on Wikihow simply don't reflect such expertise. They are vague, repetitive, simplistic and just plain wrong.
4) Unsurprisingly considering their quality, the Wikihow articles generally have few, if any external backlinks.
I just don't understand why Google gives Wikihow so much authority.
So I want to ask you: Do I have a serious chance of beating Wikihow at this game? And how can I rank above it?
I think Google really screwed things up with its latest algo changes. It's simply not serving good, relevant content. At least for the niches I'm in.
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