The Wikipedia nofollow brouhaha continues
Not that this has anything in particular to do with Japan, but since I wrote my Wikipedia NoFollow plugin for WordPress there’s been quite a bit of action.
First, Andy Beard was good enough to write it up and promote it around a few websites. In addition, he also pointed out I had a bug in my comment script, whcih I’ve hopefully now fixed.
Next, there’s a Drupal plugin written by greggles that does the same thing for that platform.
Paul Montgomery at Tinfinger makes a case for dropping Wikipedia from Google and Andy Beal at Marketing Pilgrim is whipping up support for cutting off Wikipedia. Google Blogoscoped describes how they prevent spam links and many others discuss the topic in many languages. Track the nofollow tag at del.icio.us for the latest news.
From this website’s perspective, looking at my top 10 search phrases there is just one that is in direct competition with Wikipedia, and if anything I stand to gain by the addition of rel=”nofollow” as the two above the Wikipedia entry, both linked from Wikipedia, seem to be more poorly linked to other sites, so I perhaps could very well stand to gain from them losing their Wikipedia links.
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Globalwarming Awareness2007 makes Wikipedia use Nofollow said,
January 30, 2007 @ 01:11
[…] As reported on a lot of blogs Wikipedia added nofollow to all external links. The reason for it is the “seo world championship” seo contest, for the keyphrase “Globalwarming Awareness2007″. Also the article about global warming has been locked for editing. […]
Global Warming Awareness2007 said,
March 2, 2007 @ 09:54
Was it really this contest?
If so that would be a shame, because this is the first seo contest that is going to enforce the google guidelines.
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