Comments on: Can a link to my website from Wikipedia hurt my PageRank at Google? http://www.tiptopinternetmarketing.com/pagerank/can-a-link-to-my-website-from-wikipedia-hurt-my-pagerank-at-google Internet Marketing in Portland and Search Engine Optimization SEO Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:40:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: CaboWabo http://www.tiptopinternetmarketing.com/pagerank/can-a-link-to-my-website-from-wikipedia-hurt-my-pagerank-at-google/comment-page-1#comment-268 CaboWabo Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:57:59 +0000 http://www.tiptopinternetmarketing.com/pagerank/can-a-link-to-my-website-from-wikipedia-hurt-my-pagerank-at-google#comment-268 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.<br><b>References : </b><br> 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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]]> By: Brian G http://www.tiptopinternetmarketing.com/pagerank/can-a-link-to-my-website-from-wikipedia-hurt-my-pagerank-at-google/comment-page-1#comment-267 Brian G Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:47:59 +0000 http://www.tiptopinternetmarketing.com/pagerank/can-a-link-to-my-website-from-wikipedia-hurt-my-pagerank-at-google#comment-267 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.<br><b>References : </b><br> 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.
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