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Wikipedia nofollows links. Wikipedia’s high PageRank means this is likely to have a noticable knock-on effect on the rankings of many other sites.

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4 comments

  1. Feels like a weird shrug and giving up for an organization where dealing with abuse is the name of the game ...

    Paul Smith - 22nd January 2007 21:06 - #

  2. What if Google didn't listen?

    Ryan Tomayko - 22nd January 2007 21:19 - #

  3. Conversely, it's possible that Google has been ignoring external links on Wikipedia the whole time.

    Jesse Ruderman - 22nd January 2007 23:35 - #

  4. This stinks. Wikipedia is important to the page rank of one of my sites, and now that Wikipedia is devaluing the link it has going to me, it hurts the authority my site has.

    Montoya - 24th January 2007 16:43 - #

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