Is there any news on Wikipedia's use of nofollow on their links. I read originally that it was a "temporary" measure. I'm wondering if they are working on any compromise or change to the policy. It would be great if all my links on wikipedia started boosting my site rankings once again!
No specific news as far as I know, but pages on the Wikipedia site are still showing up on linkdomain: searches on Yahoo, so its possible that Yahoo may have implemented some kind of special rule that rel="nofollow" is ignored on Wikipedia.
I think wikipedia links carry more value in the traffic they send you than the link strength itself. Saying that, removal of the nofollow would always be nice.
i dont that the nofollow on wikipedia links is temporary . they will never remove that tag from the links
That would be kind of like DMOZ or the Yahoo directory making all their backlinks into no follow attributes.
I have sites that were kindly included in on some wiki's --my highest ever was 249 hits in one day to one of them. So basically -- For traffic alone, wiki is very generous. I don't mind the nofollow, I also agree that yahoo and msn still place a little juice to nofollow still. ALthough for traffic purposes, a link in wiki is nothing to comaplin about. Although certain pages yes your only going to get 10 a day =/ But still, a targeted hit is a targeted hit, if your selling a product or offering a service, (shit even adsense ads you can get good CTR if your not garbage), i treat every hit as a customer, a sale. Atleast a future one. edit : get a few shots in me and watch me ramble =) lol boy did i get a little side tracked on that one huh. Enjoy it however you want lol.
I don't think this is a temporary "issue". If they use a normal links they will not be able to handle the link spamming.
Even though my site's links from Wikipedia are tagged with NoFollow, they are still listed in the site's Google Webmaster Tools links list. Is it possible that Google still counts them in spite of the NoFollow? (If Google doesn't count them, then why do they include them in the list?) Does anyone know?
i think the nofollow rule will be permanent to reduced the link spamming though some are still adding link to get the traffic not the link juice.