Can a link to my website from Wikipedia hurt my PageRank at Google?

M. D. H. · by **M. D. H.** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:10 pm

A lot of questionable websites use content from Wikipedia. These sites would also link to my website.

Brian G · by **Brian G** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:22 pm

No, Wikipedia makes no difference to PR of linked pages, either positive or negative.

This is intentional on Google's part - they have announced this (see somewhere in the Google blog). This is to discourage low quality links from being added to Wikipedia articles.

CaboWabo · by **CaboWabo** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:23 am

Since WikiPedia is a public space, which can be spammed, WikiPedia makes all outgoing links "nofollowed" meaning there is no "PageRank juice" which flows outward.

As long as your link profile is solid, a link can't hurt you. If it could, you could focus on bad links to your competitor's sites.