[pchelpers] Re: News:Wikipedia shuts out link spammers

Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 11:22:11 AM, you wrote:
> 
> JD> 'Nofollow' tags added to external links
> 
> JD> Tom Sanders in California, vnunet.com 24 Jan 2007
> 
> JD> Wikipedia has started to instruct search engines to ignore links
> JD> on its pages which point to external websites.
> 
> This surprises me; I'd thought they were doing this already.
> 
Many of us may be surprised at how many web sites don't use these basic 
protective methods.
http://www.website-development-training.com/nofollow/
http://www.aim-pro.com/nofollow.htm
The above links provide more details and a way to apply the tag 
appropriately. I'm considering whether to use it for items submitted to 
my pages or for links back to partner sites.

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