Is it possible to outperform Quora and Wikipedia on a SERP?

Sebastian Velandia

Sebastian Velandia

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I have been able to rank for a keyword, I'm ranking #3, the #1 and #2 spots belong to Quora and Wikipedia respectively, I want to improve my SERP position for that keyword, but I'm wondering if it is possible to outperform Quora and Wikipedia. Would be nice if you give some tips that I can apply.
 
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Increasing the authority of your domain and that page, for sure! It would take more high quality links and better on-page SEO.
 
That is a pretty great result regardless. So, dude! Congrats! Feel good about getting a SERP that is ONLY BEATEN BY WIKI AND QUORA!!!!
Baller.

Lots of people click on non-quora and non-wiki links! Including me! So Cool man!

But to answer your question --> Yah, agree with @SERPhustler
Raise your Domain Authority to beat them. You don't need a better DA (or whatever metric you are using) You just need a weighted average with quality backlinks and a domain authority and page authority.
 
Well, for quora, you can, Google don't usually ran quora first, it's always between third and fifth, as for Wikipedia, you can but it won't be easy
 
Sunmoluvic said:
Well, for quora, you can, Google don't usually ran quora first, it's always between third and fifth, as for Wikipedia, you can but it won't be easy
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This has been my experience too.
Quora is often pretty easy. Wikipedia is usually pretty tough.
 
Yes absolutely. Keep trying carefully, you don’t want to lose what you’ve achieved.
 
Work on your CTR. Tweak the title and description continuously until you get a working strategy.

You're on the first page already so links don't matter much (I think).
 
Let's say my keyword is 'blue widget'.
People still think it's cool to include links to wiki when they do guest posts as they think it looks natural... wrong... it looks stupid.
Then, they go to forums and ask why wiki ranks #1 for 'blue widget' ahead of their sites... because they were the ones who were building links to wiki in the first place.
So wiki will be hard to overtake but I think you should be fine with quora.
 
Yeah. It's Possible. Make your page or post more relevant to the keyword and work on your DA.
 
I have done it! outranked both of them under my niche. Pushed them below my feet DA 10 vs 100. Not authority but really outstanding and eye candy content. It serves a better user experience than eye sobering boring content. I keep them coming back again and again.
 
Yes it is possible.Create user intent content regular period and build backlinks to that particular page
 
get links from both quora and wiki same competing pages, then you will rank 1st in 1-3 months
 
swathi sinha said:
get links from both quora and wiki same competing pages, then you will rank 1st in 1-3 months
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That's a good point. If he owns an authority sites, then he should be able to write a great reply for the Quora qustion as well as being used as a source for the Wikipedia article.
 
Quora pages are mostly regarded as parasites, with proper links and proper optimization of your content, there's a chance.

But Wikipedia, I don't know how possible. I always avoid.
 
Google prefers authority sites. If you want to beat Quora & Wikipedia, you should prove that you have more informational content than those two. The best strategy would be building a lot of related articles and interlink all of them with each other. This will create a content cloud which signals Google that you know about the topic and have authority in the niche.
 
praetserge said:
Let's say my keyword is 'blue widget'.
People still think it's cool to include links to wiki when they do guest posts as they think it looks natural... wrong... it looks stupid.
Then, they go to forums and ask why wiki ranks #1 for 'blue widget' ahead of their sites... because they were the ones who were building links to wiki in the first place.
So wiki will be hard to overtake but I think you should be fine with quora.
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Good point, I have a link to wikipedia on that article, of course not linking to the keyword Im ranking... But should I remove that link?
 
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