In an attempt to stop sites from further increasing page rank via Wikipedia’s easily accessible means of posting links, Wikipedia announced it will now use NoFollow tags around all external links. In my opinion this will deter SEO’s from taking advantage of Wikipedia.

I have seen many examples of “resource” sites utilizing Wikipedia for increased search engine exposure to only later, turn the resource site into an Ecommerce site.

In the past Wiki pages have ranked extremely well for many competitive terms. It will be very interesting to watch the SERPS too see how Google reacts to the NoFollow tag placement around all external links. It will also be interesting to watch the sites that ranked well via the large amount of Wikipedia links they had.

Keep those link sellers honest with automatic NoFollow checking! 

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