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Because of how PageRank works, no, there is no real difference at all. Wikipedia's homepage and many other pages link to Wikimedia and that's how it gets its hi
by zone411 15y ago
Because of how PageRank works, no, there is no real difference at all. Wikipedia's homepage and many other pages link to Wikimedia and that's how it gets its high page rank and that's why it can sell the links this way. Other links on Wikipedia are all no-follow.
This is the same organization and in terms of PageRank algorithm there is no distinction. If you create a link to any Wikipedia page, it makes the Wikimedia page in question become more valuable in the eyes of Google and that's why buying the links there is worth the price.
- iamdave 15y agoIf that were the case, why is it when I look up "Page rank", wikiPedia is the first result and not wikiMedia?
- zone411 15y agoThere is no unique page about "page rank" on Wikimedia's site, so search engines that would return it as a result would be doing something very wrong. Try "job openings" in Google. I see Wikimedia as #7 in the search results, right after huge websites devoted just to jobs. Do you think it got there on its own merits and it should be there instead of, let's say, Walmart's job page? No, that is all outside links to Wikipedia giving it its high ranking.