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It was announced earlier this week that Wikipedia has put in place the nofollow tag for all external links in the Wikipedia web site. We did a quick check and yes, the announcement appears to be implemented. Apparantly it was done to combat black hat SEOs who were spamming the directory in order to boost link popularity by placing a link to their web site in related articles on Wikipedia. Bottom line, Wikipedia articles will no longer affect the number of backlinks to your web site and thus will not help you in the ongoing struggle of web site search engine rankings.

Well, its been a while since Google last updated pagerank for web sites. This is a special day where webmasters around the world hold their breath to see what kind of love Google will give to webby creations. Yes, pagerank is really irrelevant when it comes to SEO and rankings but its still one of many indicators and web site owners love the numeric gratification or distress over the lack of it.

Some existing sites are currently showing a pagerank of 0, some new sites are showing an actual pagerank so its pretty clear that Google is in process of updating their data centers. Hold your breath and hopefully the update will be done soon.