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Avatar Went Hot: October 18, 2007 - 2:42 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 626 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Is Wikipedia sharing a spammer blacklist with Yahoo and Google? Search Marketer and Wikipedia volunteer Jonathan Hochman says yes. And what makes someone a Wikipedia spammer? Content? Automated Links?
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from St0n3y 626 days ago #
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That doesn't sit well with me. Who's definition of spam is being used? Since wikipedia nofollows links why should Google care who does what over there?

from Jehochman 626 days ago #
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Like everything at Wikipedia, their blacklist is freely available to the public, including the search engines.  Matt has said that the blacklist is like a spam report.  Information that can be used, but isn't deemed 100% reliable because of the possibility of competitors creating false reports.

from corey 626 days ago #
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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist

from iBrian 625 days ago #
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Is that a bad thing?

Just hope Akismet data is also being shared. As I mentioned before, and you covered before. :)

from BrendanPicha 625 days ago #
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Yep...the wiki folks mentioned this at SMX. They are sharing the blacklisted IPs with the SEs.


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