[Foundation-l] SEOs :((((

[Kirill Lokshin]

And why would we want to do something like that?  We're not here to make
life easier for the SEO industry.

Kirill

On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, Peter, it's got over 2,000 in-bound links, from user and user talk
pages:
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-01/In_the_news
> We should really look at making such links nofollow; only mainspace links
should be dofollow, and that should exclude nav templates and the like.
> Andreas
>
>
> --- On Tue, 2/8/11, Peter Coombe <thewub.wiki at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Peter Coombe <thewub.wiki at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] SEOs :((((
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Tuesday, 2 August, 2011, 0:20
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-01/In_the_news
> is already the 5th result when I Google that title, without any SEO
> effort whatsoever :-)
>
> Pete / the wub
>
>
> On 1 August 2011 21:52, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How about a Wikipedia: namespace essay with the same title? Am sure we
could
>> get it some inbound links :
>>
>> On Monday, August 1, 2011, Mono mium <monomium at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> One moment please...
>>>
>>> I'm writing a how-to guide for sinking that website to the bottom. It
>>> involves many of their own techniques.
>>>
>>> I'll post it soon.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Rui Correia <correia.rui at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The responses so far are encouraging! ;-)
>>>>
>>>> 2011/8/1 Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> > > Someone just pointed me this link :
>>>> > > http://webmasterformat.com/blog/destroy-wikipedia-serp-ranking
>>>> > >
>>>> > >
>>>> > Fails at step 13 when the site owners with a clue about how Wikipedia
>>>> works
>>>> > spot a scumbag and laugh at them. ;-)
>>>> >
>>>> > Chris
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