f you are not involved in controversy that will have to be
the search engine saved for a different article.
optimization community,
January 21st, 2007 probably held The reason that Wikipedia’s
no significance for you. However, adoption of NOFOLLOW on every
if you are a search engine single outgoing link caused such
marketer or SEO, you probably a stir is because many people
remember January 21st as the day viewed it as the most
that Wikipedia died. To the hypocritical decision that
untrained eye, Wikipedia is Wikipedia could have made. The
exactly the same today as it was reason that Wikipedia has become
six months ago. But, once you dig so popular and performs so well
below the surface and take a in the SERPs is that bloggers and
look, you can see one difference web site owners commonly
that has had an impact on the reference Wikipedia. When they do
world of search engine this, they provide a link back to
optimization: NOFOLLOW. Wikipedia. Every time that this
process occurs, Wikipedia gains a
In the words of Matt Cutts, little more popularity in the
"rel="nofollow" attribute is an search engines. When Wikipedia
easy way for a web site to tell decided to implement the NOFOLLOW
search engines that the web site tag, they are telling the search
can’t or doesn’t want to vouch engines that although we
for a link." Before January 21st, reference a web site and may use
NOFOLLOW was mainly used for blog content from it in our article,
comments. This helped blog owners we do not want you to give it any
cut down on comment spam. credit. It is for this reason
NOFOLLOW was also used in some that many have started to view
situations to denote a paid link, Wikipedia as a massive hypocrisy.
but this is a whole other
Although NOFOLLOW has probably different method for fighting
cut down on the amount of spam spam that did not punish quality
Wikipedia has to combat, but as web sites which deserve to be
many others have stated, recognized by Wikipedia.
Wikipedia could have chosen a
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