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.
You actually make it seem so easy along with your presentation however I in finding this matter to be actually one thing which I feel I might never understand. It seems too complicated and very extensive for me. I am looking forward in your subsequent put up, I will try to get the dangle of it!
Listening to the radio and reading this website has made me ask myself how abstract and strange everything really is, do we really want the likes of this, Perhaps even so the business characteristics of the world has really ended up spinning out of control.
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What a relief to discover a page that may be ultimately really worth reading! I’ve been seeking all-around about this topic but men and women just put rubbish posts, or brief meaningless posts. I have seen a couple vids on youtube but it’s now the same as reading a good post. Great job!
yaa right nice idea i will follow it
Better start with SEO then
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
yeah… those stupid wiki’s!
wonder what happen if we all use nofollow to them?
Have a good one.
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.
Noooo! Hehe. That’s ok, I only have two links on Wikipedia that’s not helping much in terms of traffic anyway.
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.
That’s good to hear I hate yahoo I love Google hehhe
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.