Wikipedia site using NOFOLLOW attribute

22nd January 2007

Wikipedia officially announced that in order to combat the rise in spam entries on their site, they will make place the NOFOLLOW attirbute on all links without exception. This might not stop people from spamming the Wikipedia, but will definitely stop links builders who placed links merely for search engine benefit.

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Dania Mora : 26 April 2009 at 12:25 am

ohhh nice info
Faustino Kubis : 26 April 2009 at 6:48 pm

gr8 resrch bro
Julene Lovisone : 27 April 2009 at 9:33 am

Of course, what a great site and informative posts, I will add backlink – bookmark this site? Regards, Reader.

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[...] links remain untouched, turning Twitter into a walled garden much like Wikipedia, with lots of link juice coming in from other sites but none going [...]

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