If you’re not in the community optimize the search engine, on January 21 in 2007 probably no meaning for you. However, if you use a search engine marketing or SEO you have probably forgotten, on January 21 as the day that Wikipedia is dead. To learn the eye, Wikipedia is exactly the same as today six months ago. But if you dig beneath the surface and take a look, you can see a difference, has an influence on the world of search engine optimization: NOFOLLOW.
In the words of Matt Cutts, “rel =” nofollow “attribute is a simple way to tell a website, search engines, that the site could not or would not, you ensure a connection.” Before January 21, was created primarily for NOFOLLOW comments on your blog. This has helped reduce owner of the blog comment spam. NOFOLLOW was also in some cases, to appoint a paid link, but that is another controversy, are saved for another article.
The reason for the adoption of Wikipedia NOFOLLOW on each outgoing link causes such excitement, because many people, like most hypocritical decision that could make the Wikipedia. The reason Wikipedia has become so popular and leads both in the SERPS is that the blogger and owner of reference site Wikipedia. If they do, they provide a link back to Wikipedia. Whenever this occurs, profits Wikipedia a little more popular search engines. At Wikipedia decided on the implementation of NOFOLLOW day, they say that search engines that even if we are on a Web site and may be contained in our article we do not want you, where d ‘credit. It is for this reason that many have begun to Wikipedia massive hypocrisy.
Although NOFOLLOW probably reduce the amount of spam has contributed to the fight against Wikipedia, but like many others have stated, Wikipedia could have another method for the fight against spam, which are not punish websites quality who deserve recognition Wikipedia.