Wikipedia - External Links Are Now "nofollow"

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Yeah, that sucks. All those hours spent spamming wikipedia, gone to waste...

Actually I've always thought that the SE's probably already discounted external links from wikipedia to an extent anyway.

What kind of huge effect to you think this can have across the web? I mean Wikipedia is such a huge authoritative site, I bet all of their external links were serving as anchors for lots of other sites, etc..
 
Yes, external links from wikipedia are/were discounted at some SEs already.

While this might affect SE rankings, a good spam on wikipedia will still get the follow through traffic.

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bitches!
its true. i know they were having a kanipshit over my posts in the editor forums. Kinda funny to read, but yeah this sucks
 
Centiare to the rescue!

I hope the folks on this message board realize that Wikipedia ([WikiEN-l] Nofollow back on URL links on en.wikipedia.org articles for now) literally wishes death upon anyone who tries to add links for SEO purposes.

But, please don't despair. I am co-developing a new wiki directory called Centiare that is proving to me (and I hope proves to others, soon) that because we're employing semantic tagging, we're actually getting BETTER Google search results than Wikipedia gets. In fact, if you search Google for ..."largest commercial printers" Orlando... you'll discover that "Fidelity Press" comes up #2, thanks to a Centiare page about it. But there's no Wikipedia mention. Why? Because Google actually OMITS the Wikipedia result for "Fidelity Press" as a duplicate, we surmise because it "prefers" the Centiare semweb technology over the page from Wikipedia!

People, stop fighting against the children who run Wikipedia, read this (http://www.sbwire.com/news/view/10157), and this (Centiare:Search Engine Optimization) - Centiare, the free directory, and get your SEO in gear at Centiare. We would WELCOME you -- not figure out ways to ban you.

Gregory Kohs
Co-Developer, Centiare.com
 
Should have always been that way. Never really a good reason for those links to pass PR.
 
thekohser said:
I hope the folks on this message board realize that Wikipedia ([WikiEN-l] Nofollow back on URL links on en.wikipedia.org articles for now) literally wishes death upon anyone who tries to add links for SEO purposes.

But, please don't despair. I am co-developing a new wiki directory called Centiare that is proving to me (and I hope proves to others, soon) that because we're employing semantic tagging, we're actually getting BETTER Google search results than Wikipedia gets. In fact, if you search Google for ..."largest commercial printers" Orlando... you'll discover that "Fidelity Press" comes up #2, thanks to a Centiare page about it. But there's no Wikipedia mention. Why? Because Google actually OMITS the Wikipedia result for "Fidelity Press" as a duplicate, we surmise because it "prefers" the Centiare semweb technology over the page from Wikipedia!

People, stop fighting against the children who run Wikipedia, read this (http://www.sbwire.com/news/view/10157), and this (Centiare:Search Engine Optimization) - Centiare, the free directory, and get your SEO in gear at Centiare. We would WELCOME you -- not figure out ways to ban you.

Gregory Kohs
Co-Developer, Centiare.com
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you're just using meedio wiki? I don't understand where your coming from.
 
What Centiare uses

To answer the above question, Centiare is using MediaWiki, but a special implementation of it called "Semantic MediaWiki". Our theory (none of the principals of the project is an SEO expert) is that our use of semantic tagging in the articles (which creates these lovely RDF tables) and our encouragement of Google AdSense ads being deployed by our users (you figure Google's got to favor a site with their ads over an equally-notable site without their ads), are what help propel our directory listings to top spots on Google.

I'm afraid to say much more, because I just got a 6-month ban over on the DigitalPoint forum, just for accepting a "keyword challenge" that would help to prove or disprove whether Centiare can actually work in "commonly used" keyword searches. (They were not impressed with my couple of examples thus far.)

Greg
 
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