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Wikipedia Dominates Google SERPs For A ReasonWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Saturday, 24 of November , 2007 at 10:20 am

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Digg Outranks Wikipedia? Naaaaaah, Say It Isn’t SoWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Wednesday, 2 of January , 2008 at 5:22 pm

WebPro News is reporting that Digg outranks Wikipedia for the search term “January 1 TCP/IP.” You know what that means? It may mean that inbound links from authority sites may not be worth as much as they used to. Should webmasters be concerned?

I’m not willing to say for sure just yet, but according to this video featuring Kara Ratliff, that is a possibility. Ratliff says, “Throw away everything you know about Google’s way of archiving and ranking things. The incoming authority links are basically useless.”

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Posted by randfish

We recently bought a video camera and played around yesterday with some video shooting. Luckily, Scott, our resident former-Hollywooder, was able to convert the video into something we can put on the blog:

SEOmoz VidCast 1 - Wikipedia - video powered by Metacafe

 Since we’re completely new to videocasting, we’d love to get your input:

What’s your opinion of the format? More Mozzers? fewer? Different setup?How do you like the content and discussion? What would you like to see us talk about?Did the video splicing away to photos/screenshots enhance the experience or make it worse?Any good ideas on video editors you recommend? Scott downloaded the sample version of Adobe Premier to make this one (hence the logo). We’d love to try Jumpcut, but for some reason, our videos are hundreds of megs initially so we have to edit them locally.

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Posted by randfish

I don’t really need to say anything here - Colbert’s covered it all:

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Posted by rebecca

While chatting with a fellow SEO (whose identity I concealed, just in case he doesn’t want his screen name public) over IM, I noticed that certain words were being underlined in green. When I hovered my cursor over an underlined word, I got a little pop-up definition, courtesy of Wikipedia. They even defined what “haha” meant (I slapped a border around the especially amusing part of the definition):

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Posted by randfish

It may seem odd coming from someone who practices link building and whose clients require the service, but I’m gald to see that Wikipedia has shifted back to nofollow on all outbound links. What surprises me is that a relatively small-time SEO contest was the catalyst (according to Wikipedia’s talk page on the subject).

At Jimbo Wales’ directive, all external links within the English language Wikipedia are now coded “nofollow” — this should help cut spamming immensely once word gets out in the SEO community.

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Posted by randfish

Sure, Wikipedia’s done away with live external links, limiting some of their value to SEOs (and making me a much happier person), but there’s still an enormous amount of reputation management and links-for-traffic opportunities. Luckily, I’ve got a not-so-secret formula for how to add content and make changes to Wikipedia ethically and legitimately. But, first things first, let’s review a few of Wikipedia’s most important rules (I’m going to excerpt large chunks, as I believe these are valuable for would-be editors to understand):

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