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Wikipedia is a perfect storm of pagerank so unless google have specifically made an exception for it, links from there must be pretty valuable. IANASEO.
by JonnieCache 14y ago
Wikipedia is a perfect storm of pagerank so unless google have specifically made an exception for it, links from there must be pretty valuable. IANASEO.
- rmc 14y agoFor exactly this reason Wikipedia adds "nofollow" attributes to all external links on Wikipedia. You will get no SEO / page rank link juice from adding links to Wikipedia. You will probably get organic traffic though.
- JonnieCache 14y agoDuh. Can't believe I forgot about that. Not really on the ball today. What am I even doing here? This is meant to be my holiday...
- matznerd 14y agoJust because a link is "nofollow" does not mean you get no juice. Being linked to from wikipedia definitely helps a site's rankings...
- vicks711 14y agoArgument that "nofollow" = "no seo juice" is debatable. Many SEO believe that lots of links from Wikipedia does help. I have no data of my own to support the above. Theory says that "nofollow" will not help is SEO.
- Chico75 14y agoAll externals links on wikipedia use the no-follow tag to prevent that type of spamming (http://www.searchenginejournal.com/all-wikipedia-links-are-now-nofollow/4288/ http://www.searchenginejournal.com/all-wikipedia-links-are-n...)