On 1/24/07, ยท Firefoxman <enwpmail(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Google doesnt make any manual changes to their engine,
or so they say. If
you are linked to by people w/ high pagerank, your rank goes up. No matter
what.
Surely you're oversimplifying, because such a simple system would
just...suck. Some sites have good content, but link to bad content.
It doesn't take a genius to realize that, and it doesn't require any
manual tweaks to recognize those sites and ignore links from them
automatically.
On 1/24/07, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> I would personally be very surprised if being linked to by Wikipedia
> adds much value to a site in the first place - I'm sure Google
> long-ago worked out that spammers spam Wikipedia with links.
> Wikipedia itself is high-ranked, but I doubt much magic gets passed
> on.
>
Now that nofollow is turned on this might very well change, though.
Nofollow only makes sense if you apply it to *some* links and not to
others, which is exactly what Wikipedia is now doing (sister sites
aren't nofollowed, for instance).
Anthony