Wikipedia goes nofollow
Search Engine Journal confirms something I saw accidentally this weekend. All the external links from Wikipedia have now the nofollow attribute.
Well the ideea is that this is a pointless action in the fight against spam and it will only hurt the legit websites. Why is that so:
- After the nofollow agreement between Google/Yahoo/MSN, all the blogging platforms implemented it for the comments section. Result? Total failure. Blog spamming is a bigger issue than before
- On blogs, only legit websites were hurt because most of the spam comments are either caught in spam filters or manually removed
- Wikipedia, like DMOZ, is scraped by many other sites (some legit like Answers.com and some splogs). Don’t know if the nofollow atribute will be also included in those
3 Responses to “Wikipedia goes nofollow”
By SEO on Jul 22, 2007 | Reply
yeah… those stupid wiki’s!
wonder what happen if we all use nofollow to them?
Have a good one.
By CRMinfoservice provider on Oct 18, 2007 | Reply
yes i do came across this information that in wikipedia all the external links are “no follow”. previously the Wikipedia people told that they don’t want no-follow tag in their website. but many major sites are implementing it to avoid link spam, wiki is one of it.
By eddiecraig on Oct 31, 2007 | Reply
hi
ya!it’s a old news.. by giving nofollow the wiki’s were thinking that they were doing a right job..but they ll suffer if give nofollow for them.. giving nofollow to wiki’s(english) makes bad opinion on them..they shouldn’t repeat this in future..like wiki’s many major sites also doing the same so all should stop that non-sense..Thank U..