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MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Saturday June 01, 2024
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Ockham, thank you again for all the good, quality work that you're doing here under the subject of medieval philosophy. It certainly lends and air of respect to our site. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 11:57, 4 January 2009 (PST)
Ockham, thank you again for all the good, quality work that you're doing here under the subject of medieval philosophy. It certainly lends and air of respect to our site. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 11:57, 4 January 2009 (PST)
: My pleasure. I am keeping up the account on Wikipedia see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petrus_de_Ibernia&diff=261943476&oldid=245335938 here] for example but the article [[Peter of Ireland|here]] is going to be better, of course. Is there any benefit in linking the Wikipedia articles here? [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 12:01, 4 January 2009 (PST)
: My pleasure. I am keeping up the account on Wikipedia see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petrus_de_Ibernia&diff=261943476&oldid=245335938 here] for example but the article [[Peter of Ireland|here]] is going to be better, of course. Is there any benefit in linking the Wikipedia articles here? [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 12:01, 4 January 2009 (PST)
::I believe that if you create here a hyperlink to the Wikipedia article, that has the net effect among search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.) to "enhance" the reputation and PageRank of the Wikipedia article. If you create a hyperlink from Wikipedia to the article here on MyWikiBiz, it will not have a net effect among the search engines, because back in early 2007, Wikipedia selfishly put "nofollow" on most of their external link functions, on orders from Jimmy Wales. I immediately pointed out that the exceptional few links that remained impervious to "nofollow" happened to be to Jimmy's Wikia.com profit project. For that, I was again blocked from editing Wikipedia.
::Even with Wikipedia's "nofollow" effrontery, it is still helpful to link FROM there TO here, but only if you're actually doing so to assist Wikipedia users to find more helpful, authoritative information, and you are not doing it to boost your own ego or profit margins. Don't worry, others who hold power on Wikipedia will decide for you what your motives are. If you disagree with their decision, you may be blocked for daring to hold such an opinion.
::As a note, MyWikiBiz has about [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearch&target=%2A.mywikibiz.com 40 links to it] from Wikipedia article and talk space. From these links, we garner about 4 or 5 "hits" per day. Nothing to break a sweat over. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 18:45, 4 January 2009 (PST)
