Wikipedia Links - Now a Waste of Time?
As you have probably heard, Wikipedia has now added nofollow tags to all of its outgoing links on its English language sites.
This was actually brought about by a small time SEO competition, according to SEOMoz, in which Wikipedia experienced a surge in spam linking.
SEOMoz is also smart enough to realise that this will not deter serious marketers who sprinkle their links throughout Wikipedia in an effort to increase brand recognition, site authority among a targetted audience and generally because they might even have good content to offer. (Links are not always about SEO).
One interesting point that the famous Google engineer, Matt Cutts remarked is that in his ideal world, Wikipedia would pass link juice only to their trusted links, but not to their untrusted link.
Could then we see a situation where if a link in Wikipedia manages to stay unmolested for a certain period - say 6 or 12 months - it’s SEO link juice will be returned?
Perhaps an idea for the future.
But in short, if you have good, relevant information this shouldn’t really stop you from sharing it with the Wikipedians.
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