15 Jan 2009, Posted by admin , 32 Comments
What’s The Biggest SEO Myth?
Some of the best SEOs in the industry answer one question: what’s the biggest SEO myth?
Some of the best SEOs in the industry answer one question: what’s the biggest SEO myth?
Every good SEO (and most of the bad ones) know that Wikipedia NoFollows all external links. Having said that, a lot of people have noticed that their sites get a significant boost in the SERPs whenever they get a link from Wiki. It might just be coincidence, but it makes sense. NoFollow was originally introduced by Google to clean up the link spam, particularly on sites like Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers. And it worked. Wikipedia used to be spamtown, and now it’s pretty clean with a userbase that doesn’t take any shit and is quick to remove any obvious spam. It’s fair to say that there’s nowhere near as much spam in Wikipedia than there used to be. It also makes Wiki an amazing source of content that almost always links out to high quality, authoritative, accurate sites.