Wikipedia is an open and free online dictionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. It has an extensive collection of articles on almost all topics thinkable to man. It is also one of the most linkbacked sites in world, in fact, the Wikipedia English section alone has a Page Rank of 9 under Google standards. Since anyone can edit the contents of its pages, many webmasters seek an opportunity to cut a little piece from its ranking by posting their links into related Wikipedia pages. As a common SEO rule, if a high ranked page links to your site, the higher your site’s rank becomes.
This is not true with Wikipedia.
While Wikipedia allows almost all types of contents to be posted on their pages including outbound links to another site, the target’s benefit would be close to nothing. This is because Wikipedia uses a special “nofollow” tag on all user-defined links. The “nofollow“ tag within links prevent search engines, particularly Google, from crawling it and counting the link as a valid linkout.
ointing to pro-profit sites which gives great suspicion to everyone whether Wikipedia gives equal regard to all contributors in terms of link building and rank sharing. But still, Wikipedia’s policy on outbound links apply, no sharing for those who can’t afford their high price of link placement.
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