That's actually a Wikipedia thing, by putting <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
in the article source code. Internal articles in contrast say ><a href="" class="internal" That's not a Google good will thing. Sincerely, Laura Hale On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Kerry Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought that Wikipedia addressed the SEO problem by getting Google to not > follow the off-wiki links when crawling, so that Wikipedia's page rank > would > not follow through to off-Wikipedia links. But I cannot (using Google) find > the page where I read that. > > While that doesn't prevent people from spamming Wikipedia with external > links to catch people's eyeballs while reading Wikipedia, it should address > the SEO problem somewhat. > > Kerry > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- twitter: purplepopple
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