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Originally Posted by pornask
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.
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I think it was March when they cleaned up their external links and I did not bother to look into it afterwards. It was more or less obvious that they just want to link to non-commercial sites. If Wikipedia is using the nofollow tag they are hurting their own rankings as outgoing links to content sites do help a lot in search engine positioning.
But: ..... I heard rumors that Google ignores the nofollow tag.