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Originally Posted by faxxaff
Wikipedia does not send a lot of traffic, but their external links do get indexed and it helps a lot for SEO. I had one site about brothels and prostitution listed there for 2 or 3 years. However, Wikipedia started to clean out links to commercial sites (pages that have adult ads) so I got kicked out. My google traffic for related keywords went down dramatically after my link disappeared from Wikipedia. I think I lost like 3k daily google hits.
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That must have been before they implemented the nofollow tag - which was in the beginning of this year. Before that, all external links counted and google would have considered them each as a vote for your site by an authority site. Now the no follow link tells search engine bots that this link no longer gets their vote, it's just there... It will deliver some traffic, but it will no longer help with your google standing.