Bogdan Giusca wrote:
Saturday, January 20, 2007, 9:14:54 PM, geni wrote:
Eh there is worse: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=217145&highlight=wikiped... Don't worry to much the opening posters links have been removed.
Or even worse! http://www.bluehatseo.com/wikipedia-links-part-1/
"If PR is your concern please quit paying money for PR6's, Wikipedia is full of them and waiting for you to post your link."
"it only takes a couple hours to gain a good 50 or so one way PR6 links. I've had one site of mine gain over 150 PR6 links and 72 PR5 links this way."
Somehow I can't imagine that Google's ranking algorithms are that simplistic these days, considering they have entire teams devoted to combating fellows like that. I would be extremely surprised if they don't already treat "link from Wikipedia" as its own category of link.
The use of "nofollow" is so Google doesn't have to manually figure out how to treat every page on the internet, by allowing site owners to give them some information. In Wikipedia's case, Google already knows who we are, and probably already treats us specially, and so adding or not adding "nofollow" gives them no new information---and I'd be surprised if changing it has any effect on rankings at all.
-Mark