Due to the recent GlobalWarming Awareness2007 SEO Contest, the founder of Wikipedia has made all outbound links tagged with a nofollow for fear that many SEO’s will be trying to spam their pages for links to their websites.
I doubt this would get rid of all the spam put up on Wikipedia, since those links would send in traffic. However, many people are looking for link bait, so it could decrease a good amount of spam links.
Many SEO’s are angry about this and are putting up links to Wikipedia with nofollow tags. I really don’t support that since I doubt our links would make any difference in the search engine rankings, since their internal linking structure is simply astonishing.
If SEO’s are looking for alternatives to spamming Wikipedia, I would suggest Squidoo. Squidoo has sent good traffic and they don’t have nofollow tags on outgoing links.
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Hahem… it’s not very cool and fun but i understand wikipedia. With this seocontest, it’ll be not simple to controle every link, no ?
Well the SEO’s want links without nofollow tags, so their website gets Search Engine credit.