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It was recently announced that Wikipedia has recently updated it’s framework so that outgoing links now have a NoFollow attribute appended to them. This means that any website previously receiving Search Engine value from these links will now no longer have such an authoritative back link. The good news is that sites will still receive the same traffic from WikiPedia itself.
Here are thoughts around the industry:
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-January/061137.html
- http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1648
- http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/wpn-58-20070122HasWikipediaGoneNoFollow.html
- http://www.searchengineposition.com/blog/default.asp?Display=28
- http://www.searchnewz.com/blog/talk/sn-6-20070122WikipediaAddsNofollowtoOutgoingLinks.html
- http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/wikipedia_adds_.html
- http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/10642
- http://searchengineland.com/070122-091812.php
- http://blogs.guardian.co.uk
- http://news.techwhack.com/5111/wikipedia-nofollow/
Thanks for the update. I don’t think nofollow will do any good on wikipedia. Wikipedia already ranks #1 for probably 50% of all searches on google. That equals a lot of traffic for any links on wikipedia pages. If wikipedia adds no follow, the pagerank will go up, giving the sight more traffic and more people wanting to get their links on the site. Wikipedia has to deal with spam links just like the rest of us have to deal with spam email.