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Old 22-01-2007, 11:58 AM
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Does Wikipedia Rule or Ruin?

You must have seen it, it's everywhere. What am I talking about? Wikipedia, the online collaborative encyclopedia has taken over the search terms.

Many searchers love it. Many SEOs hate it. Webmasters both extoll the quality of traffic links from it bring, and condemn Wikipedia for the rel=nofollow tags.

What do you think about it? Has it impacted your search terms? Is it a force for good for for evil?

How can an SEO beat Wikipedia?
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Old 22-01-2007, 01:01 PM
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It's ok for them to NO FOLLOW tag..
ELSE = it will be worse.. when many spam getting in wikipedia.. (yeah.. everyone wanna be in it) ..

so.. for me... their decission is right.
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Old 22-01-2007, 02:46 PM
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yeah, if a famous site like wikipedia does not place the rel=nofollow tag, even myself going to place a few terms inside it. for me,wikipedia is a good source of information portal, no doubt about it. there are many others successful website applies the same tag in the link, how many you would want to condemn?
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Old 22-01-2007, 02:53 PM
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Is it fair that wikipedia is ranked well for so many search terms, benefiting from all the links to it, but they refuse to allow others to benefit from the links they give out themselves?

If everyone changed their links to wikipedia to rel=nofollow the SERPS wouldn't last long...
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Old 22-01-2007, 03:05 PM
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well, unless wiki start placing ads in their site and generate $$$ for themselves.
Even without the rel-nofollow tag, people are still benefiting from the service provided
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Old 23-01-2007, 12:43 AM
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Wikipedia to me is one of the better thing happen on the internet. For SEO and Spammers, I think they are the best thing that happen for the internet. Where else you could get free links so easily in a highly trusted site? Well, not anymore since they now standardizing the no-follow tag.
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Old 23-01-2007, 10:43 AM
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a big thank you for the spammers lol
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