On 8/19/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 19/08/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSi60Zj6JXUSome idiot, somewhere, is going to think this is a good idea.
Does that even work? Surely Google isn't stupid enough to give internal links a significant weight? Wikipedia ranks highly because whenever someone mentions a new topic they almost always give a link to the appropriate Wikipedia page for people to find out more about it. I very much doubt internal links have much to do with it.
Yes it works. It's part of why I argued that we should no-follow all internal links into or out of user namespace, and possibly go as far as fully noindexing that entire namespace. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposal...
Certainly the problems also exist outside of user NS, the fact that we execute even less editorial control over userpages is why I was singling them out.