[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

[Ian Woollard]

On 23/05/2011, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> Google's search results are entirely their business.

Actually not entirely, we do have quite a bit of control.

In an absolute worse case we could noindex the entire article (I'm not
suggesting it, in fact I strongly recommend against it).

But google pay attention to how many articles link to it, and there's
an enormous 'political neologism' template at the end of the article,
which makes them all mutually link.

I can't estimate how much link juice that pushes into the article, but
it may well be substantial, there's probably relatively few Wikipedia
articles that link to the term otherwise, terms don't usually get that
many links, but I don't know how many external links in there are, or
how much link juice they supply.

There is probably a reasonably strong argument for nofollowing
internal 'link farms' like that, I don't see that one term should
inherit another's link juice, but I couldn't see any obvious way to
nofollow internal links when I checked briefly.

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> geni

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-Ian Woollard