Campaign to Reduce Wikipedia’s PageRank to Zero

Alexandro · 05-27-2007, 08:35 AM

This site http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007...k-to-zero.html
start a campaign to Reduce Wikipedia’s PageRank to Zero;NoFolow me Wikipedia Campaign.
the story on dig: http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Campai...geRank_to_Zero

EBORG9 · 05-27-2007, 02:02 PM

I see no point in the effort. Nice sentiment though. I personally am not comfortable with my own PR and SEO yet, to worry about "Player Hating" someone elses.
JMO

NothingButNet · 05-27-2007, 02:26 PM

I don't get it. Why would people want to harm other sites? This is really not ethical. Where's the "play fair"? I understand to add nofollow attributes to the wikipedia links from our sites. After all, Wikipedia is asking for it by adding nofollow attributes on their pages.

EBORG9 · 05-27-2007, 06:49 PM

People don't understand that websites are not public entities. They don't owe anybody anything.
I don't care how well known the site, they are in it for themselves, and they are not going to give you SEO points if it's going to hurt their thing. They have put too much time and money in it to worry about all the webmasters looking for free PR and traffic pull.

Alexandro · 05-28-2007, 10:35 AM

the nofolow from wikipedia will not stop the spam at this moment because webmasters will now spam wikipedia for traffic;
Also exist the problem with what happen in dmoz, administrators to have websites and to remove from wikipedia competitors.
I talk with some administrators and the policy of them is to remove from external links sites that have advertising(like adsense,ypn ...) and affiliates not depending if they have good content.
Maybe a solution is to have a search engine only for wikipedia content.

mitra · 05-28-2007, 10:38 AM

It's seems like a type of link baiting. Putting some interesting content people will be eager to read and driving traffic to their site

peter_d · 05-28-2007, 08:29 PM

Heh. It's a amusing protest, but as Andy suggests himself, unlikely to achieve much.

SEO-aware types aren't the people providing Wikipedia with 99.9% of its' juice....

Jadehat · 05-29-2007, 09:12 AM

I whole-heartedly support this initiative.

John Scott · 06-04-2007, 06:25 AM

Well, if average Joe understood that Wikipedia was hoarding link juice, I would think it could gain momentum.

Jadehat · 06-04-2007, 06:35 AM

"OMG IT'S LINK JUICE everywhere!" (c) SEOidiot.

Sadly, but average Joe has no clue what's link juice is.

Wikipedia gained most of its value from academic sites linking to it -- no way we can reverse this process, sadly.

Mark07 · 06-04-2007, 07:07 AM

This campaign won't help in getting wikipedia's rank to zero as it is just not possible to do so unless they are black-listed and banned from Google and why should someone actually take an effort to get the rankings down of some other site which is just not right.

Costin Trifan · 06-04-2007, 08:32 AM

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...why should someone actually take an effort to get the rankings down of some other site which is just not right.

It's because of what we are

Think of what we have don 'till now...
Nothing but destroying anything...
We see a good thing? Let's destroy it!
Why not improve it? Make it better??
Oh..no, we're just humans...

*sh...

trafficmasters · 06-04-2007, 10:45 AM

Where ever there is traffic is also a group that is constantly looking to exploit that traffic and abuse it...

It is the world we live in...Just recently I was on a tele-conference for a product push and the product was all about how to spam the crap out of trackbacks and cloak it...it was just disturbing for me...but it is the way as all some people can think about is $$$$$$....

Instead of how to add value....

And with Wiki it is no different in this sense and it stinks because alot of good tactics to build traffic and improve ones site have been disabled due to pure greed... Ugh...

But that is the battle we face online....That is the battle we face offline...