Blue Hat SEO is running an interesting article about how to overthrow a Wikipedia result. The reason for this posting, is that (if you haven’t noticed) Wikipedia almost always ranks among the top results on Google for terms on which it has pages.

The post explains the three reasons for this:

1) The domain authority of Wikipedia.org.

2) Innerlinking amongst other Wikipedia entries boosting the page’s value. <- Particularly the *See Also’s

3) Inbound links from most typically blogs and forums. <- An observant person would not only notice the high percentage of links from blogs/forums in contrast to other types of links but a strong lack of sitewide links from any of those sites.

When you look at it this way, it makes perfect sense that Wikipedia would rank so well. It’s a widely used site and attracts many, many, many links. A good percentage of these are likely quality ones. And the size of Wikipedia itself lends to countless internal links, which seemingly appear on every single entry.

Read the Blue Hat SEO Post for recommended steps to get better rankings than a Wikipedia entry.