[Foundation-l] Free advertising on Wikipedia

Mon May 1 12:23:37 UTC 2006

On 5/1/06, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:

> Domas and I visited the Google campus last week after the MySQL users
> conference, and chatted a bit with some folks from the search quality team. They
> assure us that, yes, rel="nofollow" *does* help prevent linkspam from having its
> intended effect and that, yes, at least some of the SEO folks end up giving up
> on sites because of it (though of course not all, and not immediately).

Also note that Wikipedia is different from most blogs and even wikis
in that it's replicated across the web. Most of these mirrors aren't
likely to turn on nofollow anytime soon.

Erik