Comments on: Yes, Virginia, There ARE Followed Wikipedia Links

By: This Week In SEO - 7/13/07 | TheVanBlog

This Week In SEO - 7/13/07 | TheVanBlog — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:09:26 +0000

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Danny and Andy Duke It Out Over Sphinn, aimClearBlog — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:22:15 +0000

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By: This Week In SEO - 7/13/07 - TheVanBlog

This Week In SEO - 7/13/07 - TheVanBlog — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:44:33 +0000

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By: Sean McGinnis

Sean McGinnis — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:09:20 +0000

Nice article Matt!

PS - Thanks for reaching out the other day. Looking forward to helping out your contact. Sorry I will not see you in San Jose.

Warmest regards,

Sean

By: Matt McGee

Matt McGee — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:41:21 +0000

I don’t recall seeing any date stamp on the Answers.com page, everett, and without that, I wouldn’t have a clue how to know when they grabbed the content.

I looked at about 6-8 sites that had used the Sears Roebuck page, and a couple had different implementations. One had the same 4-item list for “External Links,” but the links were missing — it was just 4 text items. On another, only one of the 4 items was there, and it was also unlinked.

Sorry I don’t have a better answer for you….

Miriam - thank you so much. But we both know that people started spamming Wikipedia long before I started writing about it….

By: Miriam

Miriam — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:16:33 +0000

Nevertheless, Matt, you know that everyone with a head screwed on crooked will now begin to mercilessly spam Wikipedia with links.

Seriously, this a good find. You are turning over all kinds of interesting rocks this month (what with this, and the Google thing last week).

Small Business SEM continues to be one of my top 5 favorite blogs! And you can quote me on that
Miriam

By: everett

everett — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:14:51 +0000

Was that page scraped before or after the nofollow rule was implemented on Wiki?