It also requires SEO people<span></span> to demonstrate a modicum of logical reasoning skills. Sadly, from my work on understanding our traffic trends, this appears to be beyond at least some of them.<br><br>On Friday, 6 February 2015, Laura Hale &lt;<a href="mailto:laura@fanhistory.com">laura@fanhistory.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">That&#39;s actually a Wikipedia thing, by putting <div><span style="color:rgb(136,18,128);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,18,128);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">&lt;a </span><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">rel</span><span style="color:rgb(136,18,128);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">=&quot;</span><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">nofollow</span><span style="color:rgb(136,18,128);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot; </span><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">class</span><span style="color:rgb(136,18,128);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">=&quot;</span><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">external text</span><span style="color:rgb(136,18,128);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot; </span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">in the article source code. Internal articles in contrast say</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">&gt;</span><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap">&lt;a <span>href</span>=&quot;&quot; <span>class</span>=&quot;<span>internal</span>&quot;</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That&#39;s not a Google good will thing.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Sincerely,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Laura Hale</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Kerry Raymond <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,&#39;cvml&#39;,&#39;kerry.raymond@gmail.com&#39;);" target="_blank">kerry.raymond@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I thought that Wikipedia addressed the SEO problem by getting Google to not<br>
follow the off-wiki links when crawling, so that Wikipedia&#39;s page rank would<br>
not follow through to off-Wikipedia links. But I cannot (using Google) find<br>
the page where I read that.<br>
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While that doesn&#39;t prevent people from spamming Wikipedia with external<br>
links to catch people&#39;s eyeballs while reading Wikipedia, it should address<br>
the SEO problem somewhat.<br>
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Kerry<br>
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