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All Wikipedia Links Are Now NoFollow

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

Sunday, January 21, 2007
17 years ago10,152 views

<<As of now are all outbound links from the english Wikipedia Site using the NOFOLLOW attribute, no exceptions.>>
http://searchenginejournal.com/?p=4288

DPic [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

So this will get rid of spam because it won't improve site's search ranks? Cool :)

Bad news [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

Will lose some really valueable resource too.

Clauser [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

Hello! I want to know, where you have a section for advertising at a forum? Or it is not present? I have not found it.
P.S. Are you see storm in Europe? It's a horror...

DPic [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

why do you lose some really valuable resource?

Elias Kai [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Finally, Well done wikipedia, who can keep now all their values.

Elias Kai [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Oops , it does not apply for Wikipedia Online p oker page ? why ?

Search-Engines-Web.com [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

[Moved from "WikiPedia Adds NOFOLLOW after SEO Contest Spam" – Tony]

At Jimbo Wales' directive, all external links within the English language Wikipedia are now coded "nofollow" – this should help cut spamming immensely once word gets out in the SEO community.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#External_links_in_articles_are_now_.22nofollow.22_per_Jimbo_Wales

http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1648

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