Wikipedia to enforce no follows

Wikipedia is an online encyclopaedia, arguably the most popular of its genre today.
If you might have noticed, the first page of any search term on google throws up wikipedia, thus showing that it is an authority site.It is also a high PR site, if you check its PR using any page rank tool.

Because of the fact that it allows users to edit articles, many webmasters have been guilty of spamming wikipedia with their sites which aren't really useful to the community.Its editors remove the links, but it often turns to be a time consuming exercise.

Enforcing the no follow link will surely reducing in the amount of spamming that this valuable resource is currently being subjected to.

Kudos to them.

Happy birthday Jim

Today also happens to be the birthday to be one of the best SEO's of our generation.You can wish him at his site or one of the many webmaster forums of which he is a member.

Jim Westergren

Happy birthday, Jim.

Recent musings

I am sometimes astounded at the number of directories which I come across while prowling the internet. Ok, make that '' crawl'' instead of prowl :P

Coming back to the topic, there are hundreds of directories - you want them topic wise like blogs, or country wise- like Indian Web Directory . And of course, there are the good old general ones too :)

Speaking about Indian web directories, somebody asked me yesterday for Web Hosting India.I first thought he was cracking funny jokes, for why would somebody specifically ask for Indian hosting.A quick search on Google didn't reveal many quality hosts though.One of the facts some Indian entrepeneur must keep in mind if he wants to creat some thing great from scratch.

Directory Contest

Many of you webmasters would have tried your hand out at SEO contests. Here is a contest with a difference. It is the directory contest and it is being organised by Mike Dammann. All you need to do is rank first in Google for the term directorycontest.com

Just remember that you cannot do onsite optimization to win this contest. There is some serious cash on offer too- the first prize is a whopping $2,000.

Let us see which directory kicks butt. Visit directorycontest.com for more details.