How did Wikipedia manage to get such a high Google PageRank?
https://www.quora.com/How-did-Wikipedia-manage-to-get-such-a-high-Google-PageRank
I was curious about how sites go about to increase their PageRank, and I happened to face this article about how Wikipedia managed to get such a high PageRank. When you type any word in Google that is actually a word, most of the time, the first thing that pops up is information about that word in Wikipedia. What the article claimed was that Wikipedia came before the Search Engine Optimization (SEO), so it was the SEO’s job to find Wikipedia first, as it already had enough quality information and mass data that were internally linked together to increase readability and quality of content.
This is very relatable to the PageRank algorithm we talked about in class, how pages with the most relevent outgoing links and most relevant incoming links have the highest scores and PageRank. What the SEO said back in the days about increasing PageRank was to “Continue doing what you do now, it is search quality team’s job to find you” (Mituzas). The well picked graph of links and algorithmic collection of data of Wikipedia enabled itself to have such high impact in the Web that Google had to rank them high. It provided content the way it was supposed to be, and the mass of data it provides attracts even more users to access Wikipedia before others.
