Wikipedia site using NOFOLLOW attribute

22nd January 2007

Wikipedia officially announced that in order to combat the rise in spam entries on their site, they will make place the NOFOLLOW attirbute on all links without exception. This might not stop people from spamming the Wikipedia, but will definitely stop links builders who placed links merely for search engine benefit.

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  1. Dania Mora : 26 April 2009 at 12:25 am

    ohhh nice info

  2. Faustino Kubis : 26 April 2009 at 6:48 pm

    gr8 resrch bro

  3. Julene Lovisone : 27 April 2009 at 9:33 am

    Of course, what a great site and informative posts, I will add backlink – bookmark this site? Regards, Reader.

  4. MC : 28 July 2010 at 2:18 pm

    Interesting. Thanks!

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