[pchelpers] News:Wikipedia shuts out link spammers

'Nofollow' tags added to external links

Tom Sanders in California, vnunet.com 24 Jan 2007


Wikipedia has started to instruct search engines to ignore links on its
pages which point to external websites. 

The user-created encyclopaedia has started to include 'nofollow' tags in
all external links.

This prevents the links from being spidered by search engines, or used
to determine a website's popularity by mechanisms such as Google's
PageRank. 

Wikipedia took the action in response to a search engine optimisation
contest in which webmasters were challenged to gain the highest ranking
with major search engines for the query 'Global warming awareness 2007'.

One of the contestants created a spam entry on Wikipedia which included
a link to his own webpage.

More here:
http://www.pcw.co.uk/vnunet/news/2173254/wikipedia-shuts-link-spammers
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