Should I add 'nofollow'?

by Joe Lumbergh

Posted: 9 years ago 18 replies

Say I have an article that includes a list of many websites with ressources for the articles topic.

From a SEO perspective, should I add nofollow to them? some of them? all of them?

#add #nofollow

MikeFriedman 9 years ago

There is no reason to add a nofollow tag to those.
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- Joe Lumbergh 9 years ago
  
  Am I not giving aways link juice to all those sites?
  
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  MikeFriedman 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Joe Lumbergh
  
  Am I not giving aways link juice to all those sites?
  
  Link juice leaves through links whether they are nofollow or not. Nofollow just means they are not passed onto the target sites.
  
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  Joe Lumbergh 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MikeFriedman
  
  Link juice leaves through links whether they are nofollow or not. Nofollow just means they are not passed onto the target sites.
  
  oh. thanks. Got any source on that? I'll google about it.
  
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  MikeFriedman 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Joe Lumbergh
  
  oh. thanks. Got any source on that? I'll google about it.
  
  There are a ton of sources, but this is a pretty good description of how Google changed the way it looked at nofollow about 6 years ago.
  
  http://moz.com/blog/google-says-yes-...-with-nofollow
  
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  Joe Lumbergh 9 years ago
  
  ok thank. So different questions: Should I remove the links then and make them plain text?
  
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  Koolsteve 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Joe Lumbergh
  
  ok thank. So different questions: Should I remove the links then and make them plain text?
  
  Google likes outbound links to authoritative sites as part of their algorithm for Ranking. If you have an article with an outbound reference link to say CNN then that is very good.
  
  Not 100% sure but I am led to believe that 2 or 3 outbound links are sufficient. Wikipedia pages have loads of outbound links and get top ranking. But then they are a top authoritative site anyway
  
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BIBI15 9 years ago

if those sites are your competitors it's better to make nofollow links. thus ypu don't pass ranking boost towards you competitors
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- MikeFriedman 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by BIBI15
  
  if those sites are your competitors it's better to make nofollow links. thus ypu don't pass ranking boost towards you competitors
  
  Okay, that could be a reason to add nofollow. Rarely do people link to competitors though.
  
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Joe Lumbergh 9 years ago

of course, I would not even link to my competitors.

question remains, do I pass linkjuice to them, Is it better to add noffolow, so more linkjuice goes to my internal pages and not out to these big websites?

pls only answer if you know definite answer
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AmberK 9 years ago

If you don't nofollow, you will pass link juice to them. So it's your call whether or not to do so.

Personally, I'd nofollow them.

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- Joe Lumbergh 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by AmberK
  
  If you don't nofollow, you will pass link juice to them. So it's your call whether or not to do so.
  
  Personally, I'd nofollow them.
  
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  apparently that doesn't increase the amount of link juice passed in my other links.
  
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MikeFriedman 9 years ago

Linking to relevant sites can actually have a positive impact on rankings.

Either way though, your page is not losing anything whether you use nofollow or not. Nofollow just impacts the target page.
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- savidge4 9 years ago
  
  Links and "Link Juice" if you have 10 links on a page we will say that each link has a link juice value of 10%. if you no follow 5 of those links, the remaining 5 links will not all of the sudden pass 20%, they will pass the same 10%.
  
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larrypaul 9 years ago

No follow tag is required bbut if you want google to crawl then it is necessary that your website doesnot follow a no follow tag.
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Joe Lumbergh 9 years ago

Yeah thanks for the answers all. I also posted the question in the moz member Q&A. If anyone is interested I can share the answers I got.

I do realize that outbound links to authority sites can be positive for ranking, In my case however I link to maybe 20 authority sites in form of a "ressource list". I am aware that putting these sites in plain text and maybe just the biggest 3 sites as actual links, would decrease the "user experience" but it would decrease the number of outbound links so the links pass more juice. So the decicion is ultimately sacrificing some userexperience for more juice to the other links (including my internal links!).

I know it might not be that significant or even nit-picking, but I was just curios what the best practice would be, in such a scenario.

thanks all, thread closed
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- Joe Lumbergh 9 years ago
  
  my question was answered. stop giving the same one line answers over and over again without reading the thread first. thanks
  
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  MikeFriedman 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Joe Lumbergh
  
  my question was answered. stop giving the same one line answers over and over again without reading the thread first. thanks
  
  That will never happen. You are fighting a losing battle there. All the spambots and wannabe SEOs will chime in here for quite a while.
  
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