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Should I Make All of My Outgoing Links Nofollow?

by trentonlaura
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When I link to someone's content or even something like Twitter.com, should I be using a nofollow tag with it? Either way I'm linking to their content, do they need the link juice too? It just occurred to me that I don't know how to handle this or if it's even hurting my rankings if I link to them with a dofollow.

I'd love some insight on this, thanks!
#links #make #nofollow #outgoing
  • Profile picture of the author Adie
    Originally Posted by trentonlaura View Post

    When I link to someone's content or even something like Twitter.com, should I be using a nofollow tag with it? Either way I'm linking to their content, do they need the link juice too? It just occurred to me that I don't know how to handle this or if it's even hurting my rankings if I link to them with a dofollow.

    I'd love some insight on this, thanks!
    Using nofollow depends on your purpose. I use nofollow in all links leading to affiliate product pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author trentonlaura
      Originally Posted by Adie View Post

      Using nofollow depends on your purpose. I use nofollow in all links leading to affiliate product pages.
      Okay that's what I always do use it for, whenever I link to an affiliate offer, so that's good to hear.

      But yeah if I'm linking to Twitter.com like I said or some site like search.twitter.com, is there an argument to make it either follow or nofollow?
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      • Profile picture of the author unclepennybags
        Making the link DoFollow probably gives off some link juice. BUT when you have a few outbound links it looks natural through the eyes of Google. I recommend making it DoFollow so the search engines count it.

        Wouldn't you want a natural link from someone if they found your content to be very good?
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  • Profile picture of the author christopher jon
    No.

    Why? What purpose does it serve?

    Answer, none.

    Use nofollow for what it's intended to be used for. Most people have no reason to ever use nofollow.

    When to use it?

    When you're writing your next article about Charlie Sheen and his Adonis DNA and happen to mention that he's been hanging out with porn star Bree Olsen, if you want to link to her website, a nofollow tag might be called for. Even then I don't think it's necessary because her site, even if it's porn, isn't a bad neighborhood.

    Abusing nofollow is probably a big red flag to google bots. It's not natural and certainly raises questions about what you are linking to and why you are nofollowing everything.
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  • Profile picture of the author mcmillad
    Don't use no follow on every outbound link. That would be unnatural for a website.
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  • Profile picture of the author manidip
    Mixing of no follow and do follow will do a good job for natural link building.
    Also I appreciate Christopher jon in the above post.
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Only nofollow links where you do not trust the source.

    And if you don't trust anyone you link to, why should Google trust that your site is worthwhile to the global community?
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    • Profile picture of the author trentonlaura
      Originally Posted by tpw View Post

      Only nofollow links where you do not trust the source.

      And if you don't trust anyone you link to, why should Google trust that your site is worthwhile to the global community?
      Good tips everyone, you seemed to sum it up well TPW, I'll keep the nofollow for sites whom I don't trust if that ever comes up and affiliate offers.
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        You need to get clue as to what nofollow is and what it is used for.

        nofollow does not mean "not seen."

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        • Profile picture of the author bcmwp
          I also use when if I link to my direct competitors. However, it otherwise serves very few purposes.
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