nonni - 12:45 am on Feb 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

I think the wikipedia no-follow effect is what I am seeing. My traffic from Google for one site has dropped to near zero - it is a site with one really good wiki link that is useful to wikipedia users, and has been stable for many months. Fortunately, MSN traffic to that site is way up for some reason, keeping things about average.

~obligatory gripe~ I have one page on 'neodymium widgets.' A well written page with references and new material not found elsewhere. Was #1 for the term in Google a few months ago. Now, the number 1 result for that search mentions neodymium mining at the top of the page, and biodegrable widgets somewhere near the bottom....its not even about neodymium widgets, for Pete's sake! And the next nine results aren't much better - pages with uniformative attempts to sell neodymium widgets (but lots of links from SEO effort).

Does content really matter? Or am I better off cranking out drivel and getting links to it?