Wikipedia Links?

Everyone always told me that wikipedia links were greatly respected by search engines.

But they're "nofollow"

Can someone explain please?

 

Well even if its "nofollow" it still has anchor text value and a very small link juice value

 

so they still count a little? Any estimates as to what a nofollow PR 6 link would compare to what PR page with dofollow?

As in, nofollow PR6 ~= dofollow PR?

 

Nofollow means Google doesn't regard it as a backlink for your site. This means that it is completely useless in terms of Google SEO value (as for Yahoo and others, I dunno).

 

Getting a backlink from wikipedia is valuable even if it's nofollow.

 

yeah i do agree with Kingofsanda...these links can bring you some traffic and more over the backlinks from a trust source is always welcomed!!

 

I also agree with Kingofsanda. You should think in terms of traffic rather than SEO in this case.

 

Google still count a link from Nofolllow as a BACKLINK but Google doesn't give any PR score to your site

 

I think it will help you with all the other search engines (who don't recognise the NoFollow tag)

 

Still worth while having... not too long ago they didn't used to be 'nofollow'... ahh, those were the days!

 

Wikipedia links is nofollow so here is no chance to get link back from here I tried some time and got links also but didn't get back link yet.

 

To everyone who says "nofollow" is not considered a backlink or a.k.a external link to your site then please explain why it shows up in Google Webmaster's Central external link report? Yes, all nofollow links will appear inside of it. The question you need to ask is this: does nofollow only prevent Pagerank or prevent both Pagerank and SEO value.

 

And the answer to that is? It does prevent pagerank but may help other SEO values, in addition to obvious traffic benefits?

 

I agree, they are respected, and it helps with traffic.

 

Yes Wikipedia is No follow. google is not consider as a back link. It's help to increase traffic.

 

The nofollow attribute value is not meant for blocking access to content or preventing content to be indexed by search engines.

 

Yes, Wikipedia link has a NO-FOLLOW one, but since Wikipedia is an authority site, you'll can have traffic from it.

 

though wikipedia's links are dofollow but they are useful

 

i used wiki external link for traffic and site promotional aspect. it never gave any harm to your site so.. this is quiet good on building traffics.

 

i don't want to put a link on there that violates their posting rules. what do you guys do to get a wikipedia link that isn't illegal?