Wikipedia doesn't count for backlinks?

If your site is mentioned in the "external links" section of several pages from Wikipedia, why isn't that listed or considered as a valid backlink in Google Webmaster?

 

because they use nofollow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

 

crap. I guess the same goes for IMDB

 

I'm not sure if Google takes nofollow into account... Maybe it doesn't care about it, or just counts the link a bit less... Anyone has any test about it???

 

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

 

Well I think it's better then nothing, at least you might get some traffic from these sites.

 

Interesting post, thank you!! As KingofKings said, you can get targeted traffic, not bad at all!

 

yup these are my results for the month so far:



unfortunately the links aren't worth a damn - awful PR and I have (1) external link according to Google Webmaster, and it's from my own site....

 

Yahoo and Msn ignore nofollow.

 

markn26 you should at least be thankful for the traffic. its your no. 2 traffic source.

 

wikipidea uses no follow attribute as well as those bookmarking sites but they are a great help for traffic...

 

Are you sure???!?

 

Why they use No follow?

 

Hey its good amount of traffic!

Though wikipedia does not count for backlinks

It gives you good traffic which is invaluable!

 

Yes. That's the ultimate goal.

Anyway, his traffic stats looks really good. Can you share your tips?

 

Even if sites like IMDB and Wikipedia use 'nofollow' they still generate a lot of traffic, plus a lot of search engines ignore nofollow anyway.