That's actually a Wikipedia thing, by putting
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
in the article source code. Internal articles in contrast say
<a href="" class="internal"
That's not a Google good will thing.
Sincerely, Laura Hale
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raymond@gmail.com wrote:
I thought that Wikipedia addressed the SEO problem by getting Google to not follow the off-wiki links when crawling, so that Wikipedia's page rank would not follow through to off-Wikipedia links. But I cannot (using Google) find the page where I read that.
While that doesn't prevent people from spamming Wikipedia with external links to catch people's eyeballs while reading Wikipedia, it should address the SEO problem somewhat.
Kerry
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