[WikiEN-l] Reasons never to remove nofollow

[geni]

On 4/27/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
> And, of course, the nofollow tags screw these institutions, as well.  Even
> though they're getting the traffic through us, they aren't seeing the
> results in their Google hits, even though they might have great material
> we (bone-headedly) can't use.
>

If you have good content traffic tends to turn into links which tends
to turn into appearing higher on search results.

Wikipedia tends to racnk rather badly on google images searches though
(often ranking below answers.com)

> It's too bad we can't have a meta-list regarding what should and should
> not have nofollow on it, similar to the spam blacklist.  Not that the list
> wouldn't be abused the same way the spam blacklist is now, but it would at
> least work the best of both worlds.


We are not interested in being DMOZ


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geni