Google and Yahoo Penalties via Wikipedia
I was reading an article on the Forbes website covering the Wikipedia session at SMX NY earlier this week and a quote by Jonathan Hochman, a search marketer and volunteer Wikipedia administrator, caught my attention.
Wikipedia keeps a “spammer blacklist” and shares it with several search engines, he says. Domains that appear on the list often lose valuable search engine traffic.
I had never heard of this being done at Wikipedia and sent a quick note over to Loren Baker at the SearchEngineJournal.com. He Wrote this …
Wikipedia Spam Resulting in Google & Yahoo Penalties
Loren is very good at digging into tid bits like this and his article is on this one is very good, well worth the read.
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