Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Wikipedia SEO is So 1999

In comparing some of the annoying acronyms that come out of our US business management curriculum, a friend cited a wikipedia entry for BATNA.

This all started with a discussion of SWOT and it was noted that BATNA http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiated_agreement is much more annoying.

What I find annoying is Wikipedia's url structure, I know that's a bazar complaint. But the wikipedia article is way underoptimized. I mean just look at it. Mixed case, usage of underscores, no file extension or trailing slash... I think I'm going to be sick.

Posted By Jason Dowdell at 11:52 PM
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the URL structure is to be meant usable for humans, that may explain the lack of a file extension and the lack of a trailing slash.

I think I would like to repeat what Matt Cutts has said: Focus on content.

Wikipedia does that pretty well, don't you think?

Comments by Mathias : Thursday, January 04, 2007 at 08:24 AM

I think you guys do that quite well. As I've said before and will say again... Backlinks can cover a multitude of seo sins. Wikipedia's PageRank 8 is makes that glaringly obvious.

Keep doing what you're doing mathias and the traffic will continue to follow.

Comments by Jason : Thursday, January 04, 2007 at 09:26 AM

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