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Revision as of 18:46, 28 January 2008
, 18:46, 28 January 2008Add the recent "Liz Cohen born Phoenix" results that pwnd Wikipedia
MyWikiBiz contributors enjoy the effects of MyWikiBiz '''[[Help:Search Engine Optimization|Search Engine Optimization]]'''. MyWikiBiz listings that utilize [[Help:Semantic_tagging|semantic tags]] achieve higher rankings in search results, through a combination of relevance and linkage.
MyWikiBiz contributors enjoy the effects of MyWikiBiz '''[[Help:Search Engine Optimization|Search Engine Optimization]]'''. MyWikiBiz listings that utilize [[Help:Semantic_tagging|semantic tags]] achieve higher rankings in search results, through a combination of relevance and linkage.
==Recent examples==
As of late January 2008, MyWikiBiz's semantic wiki is about a month old with a Google PageRank of 2/10, while Wikipedia's plain wiki is 84 months old and has a PageRank of 8/10.
We're already discovering that on certain searches, though, MyWikiBiz has the potential to beat Wikipedia:
[[Image:Liz_Cohen_with_Trabant.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Liz Cohen owns search results]]Consider the search terms '''Liz Cohen born Phoenix'''. In a [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=liz+cohen+born+phoenix+ Google search], we found Liz Cohen's MyWikiBiz page perched at result #2, while Wikipedia's page about her came in as result #7.
The situation on a [http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Liz+Cohen+born+Phoenix&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&xargs=0&pstart=1&b=1 Yahoo! search] was even better -- MyWikiBiz comes in as the #1 result. Wikipedia is not even found in the first 100 page results, except for false positives on articles about Freddie Mercury and Tanya Donelly.
What is Wikipedia's problem? We surmise that because Wikipedia frowns on (in fact, it ''forbids'') the subject of articles adding "sticky" content (like videos, sound clips, images, advertising, and those all-important semantic tags) to their pages, the big encyclopedia actually loses the search engine race when the topic is a less-notable subject.
==Examples from our past (on Centiare.com)==
==Examples from our past (on Centiare.com)==
Here's an example we noticed in December 2006:
Here's an example we've noticed in December 2006:
[[Image:CLS_Stained_Glass.jpg|thumb|right|200px|CLS window depicting "Wisdom"]]The [[Directory:Church of the Loving Shepherd|Church of the Loving Shepherd]] is located in [[Directory:West Chester, Pennsylvania|West Chester]], [[Directory:Pennsylvania|PA]]. Assume that you were driving by the church one day, but you only caught a glimpse of the church's full name. Later that day, you might search Google using a pretty common method: entering ''city + name'' fragments, which in this case might be the stream-of-thought keyword phrase ''West Chester church shepherd'' (because that's all you remembered from your drive-by observation). Click the following link to see the actual result you would get on Google:
[[Image:CLS_Stained_Glass.jpg|thumb|right|200px|CLS window depicting "Wisdom"]]The [[Directory:Church of the Loving Shepherd|Church of the Loving Shepherd]] is located in [[Directory:West Chester, Pennsylvania|West Chester]], [[Directory:Pennsylvania|PA]]. Assume that you were driving by the church one day, but you only caught a glimpse of the church's full name. Later that day, you might search Google using a pretty common method: entering ''city + name'' fragments, which in this case might be the stream-of-thought keyword phrase ''West Chester church shepherd'' (because that's all you remembered from your drive-by observation). Click the following link to see the actual result you would get on Google: