Wikipedia introduced the no-follow tag, presumably as way to prevent people using Wikipedia to pass link juice. Even when most Wikipedians wanted no-follow removed, Jimbo Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, hs chosen to keep no-follow.
Looks like Jimmy Wales is twice the hypocrite - once for wanting to keep adding no-follow to wikipedia links even after the democratic decision making body of wikipedians voted in majority to remove the useless “no-follow” addon, and then again for not using the said no-follow attribute for links from wikipedia to his other ventures, including wikia.com which happens to be a for-profit venture. I guess the bottom line and business demands are strong enough reasons to controvert established systems at will, for anyone. This is real bad news, but expected new, nevertheless.
No-follow was such a braindead idea - the only folks that ever did gain from the action of webmasters was google - their problem got reduced, but webmasters, including yours truly regularly get pummeled with unwanted visitors.
The V7n folks seems quite cool: check out this post on the art of refunds - they at least seem to get the part about how to deal with unsatisfied customers right - the point John makes about tolerating a few scammers to keep the majority of legitimately disconcerted clients is something that seems to slip by many online dealers, unfortunately.
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Sarah // May 4, 2007 at 10:52 am
I notice the new Wiki, Citizendium, is also using nofollow on all links in new articles.
How can they justify this? When all contributors are strictly registered under their own names, with no anonymous users allowed.
And now we hear that links from Wikipedia to any other Wiki-group sites are free of the nofollow attribute.
Surely they are attempting to leap-frog their new commercial sites ahead in the SERPs. It smells of an attempt to dominate the web through these anti-competitive tactics.
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