From the Search Engine Journal, All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW:
I blogged about the Wikipedia Issues with SPAM and the discussions about the use of NOFOLLOW for ALL external Links from Wikipedia. It was done, finally.As of now are all outbound links from the english Wikipedia Site using the NOFOLLOW attribute, no exceptions.
No matter where you place it, Article Page, Talk Page, User Page, Project Page, whatever. No Link will get any credit at the major search engines.
What does this mean for you my fellow bloggers? Well, you still get that link if your site or blog has been added as an external source, along with it the referral traffic. That’s about it actually.
What does this mean to the SEO guys? Well, they could start by firing letting go everybody in the Wikipedia Contributor Department.
Does it matter? Not much really but if you (partly) live off PR juice and Wikipedia link loving, you’re basically screwed. Naah, just kidding. Besides, not all of the big search engines follow the nofollow tag.
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Prior to this, I never thought of having link from wikipedia will help in terms of SEO, as obviously it is wide open from abuse.
That’s good to hear I hate yahoo I love Google hehhe
That’s good news for Wikipedia editors like myself who have to check and clean spammy links!
If your link is good, then people will click naturally.
Noooo! Hehe. That’s ok, I only have two links on Wikipedia that’s not helping much in terms of traffic anyway.
Links to blogs are actually not allowed on Wikipedia, according to the following WP policy pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
Whenever I see a link to a blog, I remove it immediately, no questions asked. The only exception would be a notable person’s official blog, if the link was included in the article about this person.
yeah… those stupid wiki’s!
wonder what happen if we all use nofollow to them?
Have a good one.
The official claim is that links with the rel=nofollow attribute do not influence the search engine rankings of the target page. In addition to Google, Yahoo and MSN also support the rel=nofollow attribute.
i think it helps indexing