Should my outbound links all be "no follow"

Ronnie55

Ronnie55

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This is somewhat related to my other n00b thread of the day...

I just thought of this and tried searching google a bunch but couldn't find a clear answer from somebody who actually knows what they're talking about.

I have a site that basically lists the best sites to do _____. So people find my site searching for a list of websites where they can find a certain thing, and they spend a bit of time on my blog or website, but generally click through to another site from my list.

The site and model is actually doing pretty well, and I prefer reviewing/rating otehr peoples' content rather than generating my own, so this model works for me. I'm more of a reviewer/intermediary.

Anyway, my question is this: each of my website's pages has 5-6 outbound links because that's the basis of my site. It's unavoidable, i have to link to other sites. Should I make all of these links "no follow"? that's my question.

I guess the idea would be to preserve more pagerank for myself. I don't know if this is complete B.S. though and not even worth thinking about. Hopefully someone can help.
 


If you want to be a nice webmaster and help another webmaster out, then you should allow them to be followed.

Now, if you're like me a greedy nazi webmaster, NO FOLLOW for every exiting link, period.
 
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Pocket-protected scientists built a wall of iron and crashed a Nofollow Backlink car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed.
They then built a wall out of Nofollow Backlinks and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an out into the wall, and the wall came out fine.
They then crashed a Nofollow Backlink car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors.
They crashed 400 miles per hour into a Nofollow Backlink travelling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours.
They rammed a wall of metal into a 400 mile per hour made of Nofollow Backlink, and the resulting explosion shifted the earth's orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards midwestern Prussia at 400 billion miles per hour.
They shot a Nofollow Backlink made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused two wayward airplanes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with two buildings in downtown New York.
They spun 400 miles at Nofollow Backlink into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive.
Finally, they placed 400 Nofollow Backlinks per hour in front of a car made of wall travelling at miles, and the result proved without a doubt that Nofollow Backlink were the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known the man.
 
Sharing is caring. If the link can be useful to someone, make it dofollow. PR sculpturing is soooo 2007.
 
golan said:
Sharing is caring. If the link can be useful to someone, make it dofollow. PR sculpturing is soooo 2007.
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Ok I'll just chill out and let it be dofollow. The sites I link to are quality, and my site couldn't exist without them.
 
I pretty much allow dofollow on all outgoing links except comments, and with comments allow the quality commenters dofollow. The only reason to nofollow is to discourage spam, or at least to not reward spammers.
 
  • Advertisements/user submitted content = nofollow
  • Links you're (or someone on your team) are manually putting in = dofollow

That's my personal rule of thumb. Nofollowing every single external link can't hurt you (in my experience), but dofollowing can.
 
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