[WikiEN-l] Nofollow back on URL links on en.wikipedia.org articles for now

geni geniice at gmail.com
Sun Jan 21 14:18:38 UTC 2007


On 1/21/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Serious question:
>
> Is it worth the Foundation approaching Google with a suggestion to
> *penalise* links from wikipedia.org? Not single links, but many links.
>

Google have long standing principle that it is imposible for anything
not on your site to hurt your page rank or whatever. The logical
responce to this would be to spam your oponent's links.

There is also the problem of site like www.findagrave.com who quite
legitimately have rather a lot of links on wikipedia.

-- 
geni



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