Wikipedia Now Using NOFOLLOW

According to CarstenCumbrowski of Search Engine Journal the massive Wikipedia site is now utilizing the NOFOLLOW link attribute to reduce the credit spammers are given by having links from Wikipedia to their sites.  Every link on every page is now a NOFOLLOW link.  This won’t eliminate spam at Wikipedia but what the NOFOLLOW link attribute does is notify search engines not to worry about spidering sites that it links to.  Essentially you’re not giving credit at a number of search engines for links to other sites.

The NOFOLLOW attribute was all the rave a while back and I wrote about it here, Not Following Comment Spam.  However, you have to remember it doesn’t stop spam it just doesn’t give links (good or bad) any notoriety at the search engines.  I don’t think it’s a bad idea for Wikipedia to do this but I’m a little disappointed in the fact that links from Wikipedia to a few of my sites (I didn’t create the pages or put the links on Wikipedia) will not be given credit where credit is due.

[tags]wikipedia, nofollow, search engine[/tags]