So many huge sites these days are being stingy with their external links and using nofollow all over the place. Is it far that these site get tons of links and then announce they are going to put nofollow in their anchors? What kind of impact does a site like wikipedia have on announcing a nofollow policy? I’m sure there are webmaster out there that have never heard such bad news loosing all those pr6’s and 7’s they work so hard disguising their intent by adding a link to wiki. Even though they wanted the link to stick for the pagerank the only way to do that was to write useful content and link to a credible source or a moderator would just boot it and everything from that user and that IP.

Is there a better way? Wiki has the resources to develop a system that spiders newly added links to check for obvious sign of spam like a crazy amount of ads. I just think that having millions of pages that people across the world have all helped to get wiki where it is and doing something like adding nofollow to their external links is insane.

Hopefully everyone that has a links to wiki will either removes it or use the nofollow methid. Maybe this will bring their PR down and make them rethink what they are doing.

On the other hand I do see why they think about doing something like this but it doesn’t change the fact that are very useful pages that are link from wiki as resources and a single link from wiki would make it much easier to find those resource. I think another good answer would be to put no follow on all links that a moderator hasn’t reviewed yet. Just like that the spam doesn’t get credit and the useful pages do.