It also requires SEO people to demonstrate a modicum of logical reasoning skills. Sadly, from my work on understanding our traffic trends, this appears to be beyond at least some of them.
On Friday, 6 February 2015, Laura Hale <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > > > -- > twitter: purplepopple > -- Sent from my mobile computing device of Lovecraftian complexity and horror.
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