User:Ta bu shi da yu/Google

Hello,

I am a Wikipedia administrator (Ta bu shi da yu), though I am writing from a personal capacity.

I figure you might be interested in the following links that show what appears to be an excellent way of gaming Wikipedia to increase the viewability of your website in Google:

Blog pointing out the issue: http://www.petertdavis.net/185-how-to-sabotage-the-competition-in-wikipedia/

Forum post explaining how to use Wikipedia to game Google: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=76925

The way that this works, as far as I can work out, is that you add a valid external link to an article, then internally wikilink as many other pages as possible to that one article that has the external link. Obviously I don't know Google's search algorithms (nor do I want to know, I don't have a personal website and I'm not selling anything) but it seems that Google then adds extra weight to the external link because there are so many internal Wikipedia pages that link to the Wikipedia article that contains the external link. I think perhaps that this is something it might be worthwhile Google tweaking their algorithm for Wikipedia to note that external links on the site should not have be given undue weight based on how many other articles link to that one article with the external link.

Anyway, I hope that this feedback helps you decrease the weight of external links in Wikipedia! We really don't want to be a link farm, and we don't want to be spam-central.

Regards, Chris Sherlock Wikipedia administrator (writing in a personal capacity) Email: ta.bu.shi.da.yu@gmail.com