nealrodriguez - 4:25 pm on May 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

Seems to be a deal between google and wiki. Wish it otherwise, but that's what I see (and my clients as well... all begging me to get them above wiki).

it's walking up a slippery slope, but not impossible. i have seen it done; i doubt it's a hand shake under the table. just think of all the sites that link to wikipedia in order to cite a definition with the keyword, which the wikipedia article defines, as anchor text.

according to yahoo! over 6 million pages link to wikipedia:
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikipedia.org%2F&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=s

but if you can't beat them join them; write some encyclopedic pages of your own:

what wikipedia teaches
[webmasterworld.com...]

[edited by: tedster at 3:11 am (utc) on May 9, 2009]
[edit reason] clarify link [/edit]