Any benefits to having Wikipedia links now they are 'no-followed' (apart from traffic and natural link prof.)

[Dan-Lawrence]

I see that Wikipedia outbound links are all no-followed, is there any benefit (aside from the traffic) for having links here now ?

For example is their co-citation and co-occurance benefits.  I know there is without the links since from seeing previous Moz content about this saying Google getting good at connecting brand/s and topic mentions on a page (without any links) so appreciate Wikipedia is still good for that sort of thing. And a no-followed link is obviously good for the potential traffic.  But is there any additional SEO benefit to having a no followed link on a wikipedia entry/stub too ? (aside from its contribution to your no-followed links which in turn contribute to a natural looking link profile)

Cheers

Dan

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Although I haven't done or read any studies about the impact of a wikipedia link on rankings, I would say it has a positive effect. Although there is no link authority/page rank flowing, the co-citation/occurance on a SUPER high authority website would drive direct traffic and increase your site's trust. I would say that one way or another, this has an impact on your rankings.

[Dan-Lawrence]

Thanks Oleg

But the co-citation/occurance will occur anyway wont they (if brand is mentioned on page) ?

But then i suppose the link just helps elminate any doubt in G mind as to the location of co-citated/occured brand, so better to have link if possible

[vmialik]

No-follow is still in the works with search engines , and SEOs are still in research phase, of testing whether or not no-follow counts and what it counts for.

Responses like these are not uncommon: "but what little research has been done by anyone would seem to indicate that they do still count those [no-follow] links."

More: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/all-wikipedia-links-are-now-nofollow/4288/

[Dan-Lawrence]

absolutely agreed still better to have a link than not

[shabbirun]

Completely agree with you, Oleg.

I've got two wikipedia links back to my website and I get a fairly regular stream of traffic from them as referring sources, and those visitors are the most engaged, too, averaging at least 5 to 10 minutes per visit!