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Mar

Does Wikipedia Nofollow links help boost Google ranks ?

Matt Cutts published a new video today where he answers two questions about the Nofollow links and whether Google still consider them as ranking factors.

Q 1 – Do you feel that the widespread and blanket use of Nofollow tags is devaluing Google’s search algorithms? Examples such as Wikipedia where are links are nofollow. Does Wikipedia mean nothing to Google algorithms?
(Vince Samios UK)

Q 2 – Do Google take into account quality factors from nofollowed links when the links come from well established authority websites such as Wikipedia ?
(Jonaths , UK)

And Matt answers them saying that ,

- Nofollow links are actually a very small percentage of the entire web.
- Wikipedia links wont directly help you in any rank boost on the SERPs.
- There are lot of factors that help determine whether a site or person linking using the nofollow tag (From Wikipedia or otherwise) carries “trust” or not. If they are trusted sources, then the nofollow tag could be ignored.
- Basically the nofollow tag is a tool to keep away spammers.

Here’s the video.

Eddie Gear

Hi Mani,

This is an interesting article video of Matt. You should take a look at SEO Wizz (Tim) I do follow his site for some good info on SEO. You can catch him at http://www.seowizz.net/

He has an article related to this post by Matt. You should probably have a post on what you have to say bout this. I bet that would be Interesting.

Cheers,
Eddie Gear

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Ruby Web Replied:
Good one Eddie! I just had a look and it is a cool article, well worth perusing if you’d like to learn some more on this specific topic.

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Manoj

hi ,

its really nice, I need more details regarding this article.

Manoj

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How to start a nursing agency

I appreciate the fact that you are letting us see the previews

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Ajith Edassery

Good to learn that nofollow alone is not the culprit but the overall trust factor. Talking about nofollow, I hear that only Google treats nofollows big time while they don’t care about the on page keywords etc where as Yahoo SE behaves exactly the opposite.

Talking about ‘trust’, do you know any mechanisms to improve the same? For example, on compete.com profiles certain sites and blogs are marked as verified/safe where as some others are not. How can the trust be proven?

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That’s a really useful post, thanks Mani. I think it’s really interesting that if a site is trusted nofollow may be ignored. I think this shows that the Google algorithm isn’t as simple as ‘number of backlinks’ and that overall quality is the most important factor!

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Listorbit

For better Ranking quality links and authority links are vital.

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Chat Text

All good info to know. Thanks that might be good to tweet

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seoguy

Vey informative post about nofollow. I didn’t understand this part “Wikipedia links wont directly help you in any rank boost on the SERPs”

Why say “won’t directly”

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Mani Karthik Replied:
There’s a wrong idea that adding links to Wiki pages will get you page rank juice. Well, technically it won’t give you any advantage. (Forget about getting your links aproved..:D )

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Narendra.s.v

The video was really cool and informative.keep posting articles like this.Thanks man

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Hans

Well Wikipedias copyright have made use on a lot of other sites common. I havent checked but I would guess removing nofollow isnt uncommon.

So to say that a link in an article at Wikipedia have no effect would be true. But doesnt say anything if a link the article have effect.

But if that gives something total is of course another question. I think (but havent checked formal) that most sites re-publishing Wikipedia of course often doesnt have much of authority and power.

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SEO Tips South Africa

They won’t help your Google efforts, but focusing all your internet marketing efforts on search engines, to the exclusion of everything else is not the way to do it either. Wikipedia links will help garner you human traffic, and not just bot-recognition!

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Issac

i have did one for no follow link. and at the end, it really not follow by the search enqine, and i manage to save all my privacy data. it works on yahoo and google search engine too.

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lyndas

Thanks for the information here. Love this site with all the info.

Lynda

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Ruby Web

I QUOTE

….” If they are trusted sources, then the nofollow tag could be ignored.”

This will mean that there will be PageRank boosting benefits., even if the nofollow attribute is applicable.

I wonder how the authority is going to be determioned, perhaps based on PR? Again?

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Matthew

In my opinion nofollow links don’t pass on any pagerank juice but they do help keyword ranking. The importance it’s given for keyword ranking is debatable but I think that it dies help.

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