On 27/04/07, Andrew Cates <andrew(a)catesfamily.org.uk> wrote:
I don't get it (or at least understand it that
way). The article says
wikipedia (with nofollow) generates lots of traffic and is very
valuable. So nofollow doesn't put people off spamming. Everytime we ask
at Project Wikispam everyone agree adding nofollow hasn't helped at all.
All it does is give a false warming feeling to people "at least these
SoBs aren't getting pagerank from us". And nofollow is a 6m Neon sign
saying "our content cannot be trusted" so the true warming feeling goes
to Britannica.
There are two forms of spamming. One is spamming links to get traffic;
the other is spamming links simply to get the attention of search
engines. Nofollow makes no impact on the former, but does mess up the
latter, and that's what we were aiming to deal with...
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