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Originally Posted by saikatblogger
Though I am new to this field, but allow me to post my experience here:
I worked for a site that offers a specific service for U.S. citizens and it rank first in the SE for the main targeted keyword. I must mention here that one wikipedia page ranks 2/3 for the same keyword.
Now when I check the keyword in google.co.in I can see wikipedia page at the top and my site at 2/3 position. Why so?
Here is my guess:
Since the service is quite common in U.S. people can directly come to my site and browse it, but people from other countries are not aware of this thing, so they prefer to learn it from wikipedia, hence they go to the wikipedia page for the same query search. And Google tracks that.
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it's not that complicated. Google favors Wikipedia and considers them an authority on many, many topics. however, this is quickly going to become a favorED because of Wiki's nofollow link policy.
Google doesn't care how many visitors a site gets when it comes to rankings nor do they track which site receives the most visitors. the clearest example for this is to conduct a search on the word "search". Google is not in the 1st position but i promise they get a helluva lot more visitors than the number 1 site does.