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Can a link to my website from Wikipedia hurt my PageRank at Google?

Jun 29th, 2009 by admin | 2

A lot of questionable websites use content from Wikipedia. These sites would also link to my website.

Since WikiPedia is a public space, which can be spammed, WikiPedia makes all outgoing links “nofollowed” meaning there is no “PageRank juice” which flows outward.

As long as your link profile is solid, a link can’t hurt you. If it could, you could focus on bad links to your competitor’s sites.

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2 Comments on “Can a link to my website from Wikipedia hurt my PageRank at Google?”

  1. On June 29th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
    Brian G said:

    No, Wikipedia makes no difference to PR of linked pages, either positive or negative.

    This is intentional on Google’s part - they have announced this (see somewhere in the Google blog). This is to discourage low quality links from being added to Wikipedia articles.
    References :

  2. On June 29th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
    CaboWabo said:

    Since WikiPedia is a public space, which can be spammed, WikiPedia makes all outgoing links “nofollowed” meaning there is no “PageRank juice” which flows outward.

    As long as your link profile is solid, a link can’t hurt you. If it could, you could focus on bad links to your competitor’s sites.
    References :

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