Alex Sains on 26 Jan 2007 06:54 pm
Wikipedia adds “nofollow” back to external links
Well, the huge decision to be made by Wikipedia whether or not they would re-introduce the rel=”nofollow” attribute to external links has been made: sure enough, “nofollow” is back!
What this means is that in terms of most of the leading search engines (Google and MSN mainly) no longer give weight to the external links on any of the Wikipedia site in terms of ranking. (It has been pointed out to me by Andy Beard that Yahoo does in fact use ‘nofollow’ tags - thanks Andy!)
In my opinion, this is good news, as it will quickly stop black-hat SEO players from abusing the wiki in order to gain a higher rank in Google or PageRank. On the other hand, it seems a shame that deserving sites are not gaining some of the status they arguably deserve.
What is the overall opinion? Good Wikipedia, or bad Wikipedia?
on 27 Jan 2007 at 12:06 am 1.Andy Beard said …
It won’t stop the blackhats, it will just deprive ethical websites from receiving credit in the search engines for any citations or material that was used to generate Wikipedia which has a policy of no original research.
Google rely on links to determine relevance and duplicate content.
Oh, and before you claim all major search engines respect nofollow, they don’t as Yahoo certainly index and follow links even if they have nofollow.
on 28 Jan 2007 at 5:00 am 2.Alex Sains said …
I think it will slow down (agreed it wont stop) blackhats purely because there will be little to gain from the links in terms of Google.
You’re absolutley right about Yahoo — I apologise. I am not the most interested person in terms of Yahoo’s ways, and thus have made that fundamental error.
Thanks very much for correcting me
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