On 3/22/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 22/03/07, Jeff Raymond
<jeff.raymond(a)internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
Okay, that makes some sense.
Now, why the hell aren't they nofollowed along with everything else?
Presumably because they're very unlikely to be spam links that search
engine spammers would insert to try to get Google rank.
(And now let's see if search engine spammers start looking for ways to
abuse that ...)
trivial it doesn't nofollow links to del.icio.us. Spammers have been
abuseing that for some time:
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=del.icio.us+seo&btn…
Google Groups probaly have simular issues
Personally I think it's in fact good to give Google rank to external
links if doing so doesn't constitute an attractive nuisance to
spammers. That links on Wikipedia are editor-selected is a reason the
en:wp community objected to default nofollow when it was first added
to Mediawiki. What we need is some way to make it less binary. That
means coding. Which I can't do either. Pfeh!
Wikipedia is not DOMZ. I don't think we should be in the game of
helping google and other search engins decide what counts as a good
link. By all means make sure they pic up links to other wikimedia
projects but I see little value is messing around with methods to rate
other types of links.
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geni