Too many dofollow links?

10 years ago

I've heard more than 10 is 'too many' but I'm not close to being sure, and that wasn't a hugely reputable source by any means. So I'd also like to know!

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jinx1221

10 years ago

I'd actually cut down on the number of outbound links you have.. almost rediculously unnecessary obl count. That alone will raise a couple hundred red flags, dofollow or not.

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habibkhan01

Banned 10 years ago

Too many dofollow links are better than nofollow. But I think that any links from high page rank and domain authority is best to ranking high.

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LuckyIMer 10 years ago

Originally Posted by habibkhan01

Too many dofollow links are better than nofollow. But I think that any links from high page rank and domain authority is best to ranking high.

This has nothing to do with the OP question! Did you even read?

Originally Posted by TLondon

Now, in this specific case, should I mark some of these nofollow, which ones and why?

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I would make all of the outbound links no follow. It is good to link to reputable websites, but also reputable websites should link to your website in order for your website to benefit. In your case you are linking to many websites and if you add the do follow attribute, it will negatively impact your website ranking.
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patco 10 years ago

Originally Posted by habibkhan01

Too many dofollow links are better than nofollow. But I think that any links from high page rank and domain authority is best to ranking high.

What are you talking about? Did you even read the question? Pff...

Well. I would say that more than 3-4 are more than enough... Per 2000 words, it's not a very good idea to have 17 OBL's... This will also distract people → which link should they click
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Rank Watch

10 years ago

Originally Posted by TLondon

So we concluded before that some linking out with dofollow to reputable sites can be beneficial, but I'm wondering how much is too much?

For example. I've got this article of 2000 words ready to be published. It has 26 outbound links. 9 links in the body of the content (to .edu sites like Harvard Medicine, to .gov like Medline's site, and a few to .org, including 1-2 Wiki links) and another 17 links at the bottom of the article as references, all to medical journals (majority to PubMed's National Center for Biotechnology Information, and a few links to some other medical journals of .org and .com domains).

Now, in this specific case, should I mark some of these nofollow, which ones and why?

Thank you!

I think you should nofollow the external links.

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TLondon

10 years ago

Okay, thanks for all the responses so far guys.

Need more to make a definite conclusion though. Any other thoughts?

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Jinghong 10 years ago

Originally Posted by TLondon

Okay, thanks for all the responses so far guys.

Need more to make a definite conclusion though. Any other thoughts?

Hi,

With regards to the limit of OBL links (whether dofollow or nofollow), there's no magic number really to the limit of OBL on your page. On the SEO side of house in retrospect to Google Search Engine in particular, in the past, Google set a limit to 100 OBLs (I think) because the algorithm wasn't able to handle more than that, when crawling and following the links of the webpage. But subsequently, Google lifted this practice after they upgraded their system (and that was many years ago). So technically, you can create as many OBLs as you want, only limited by the number of words you have on your webpage.

That said, I wouldn't do that as it decreases the reader's experience on your webpage. Imagine reading an article with a clutter of hyperlinked texts. When linking out, think if the link would value-add to your reader (linking to a webpages that clarifies a statement you've passed, or linking to a webpage that provides more info regarding the text that was hyperlinked etc) You can never go wrong with that.

With regards to nofollow and dofollow links, the best practice is to allow dofollow for your links that you trust. Vice versa, if I do not trust a website, I wouldn't link to it in the first place. Nofollow links was created to help webmasters to tell the search engines that these links are non-editorial, i.e. the links are not placed there by the webmasters, such as the links on web 2.0s or comments etc; or on sponsored/paid links.

So in your specific case, if all your outbound links are to trusted authority websites, and they do in fact value add to your readers, Go For It!

Hope this helps!

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Jinghong Chiu
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yukon

Banned 10 years ago

If you absolutely need those OBLs as reference links make another internal page on the same domain as your content/article & link from the content footer to the 2nd internal page. That gives you a 2nd internal page for free targeting the same keyword.

Look at howstuffworks.com as an example, 10 page series focused on hurricanes with page #10 as the reference list of links, including outbound links.

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TLondon

10 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

If you absolutely need those OBLs as reference links make another internal page on the same domain as your content/article & link from the content footer to the 2nd internal page. That gives you a 2nd internal page for free targeting the same keyword.

Look at howstuffworks.com as an example, 10 page series focused on hurricanes with page #10 as the reference list of links, including outbound links.

That's a great idea!! Thanks yukon.

So I'm thinking out-loud here. How about instead of creating multiple separate pages for references, I create ONE page "References," strictly for ALL citations with links, as I often use the same studies in multiple articles. That way I wouldn't get to rank for the same keyword multiple times, but it would make the whole referencing process easier for me, and far more comfortable for my readers, too. I could have this page as in the end of the book, all references in one place. Does that make sense? It would be over 200 links in one page, so I guess I just have the whole page nofollowed with Yoast's SEO possibly?

Would that work in terms of SEO to avoid hurting my own rankings?

And for the 9 mentioned outbound links to .gov, .edu, .org sites within the content (not citations at the end of the article), do I nofollow them all? Or leave a few dofollowed?

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yukon

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by TLondon

That's a great idea!! Thanks yukon.

So I'm thinking out-loud here. How about instead of creating multiple separate pages for references, I create ONE page "References," strictly for ALL citations with links, as I often use the same studies in multiple articles. That way I wouldn't get to rank for the same keyword multiple times, but it would make the whole referencing process easier for me, and far more comfortable for my readers, too. I could have this page as in the end of the book, all references in one place. Does that make sense? It would be over 200 links in one page, so I guess I just have the whole page nofollowed with Yoast's SEO possibly?

Would that work in terms of SEO to avoid hurting my own rankings?

And for the 9 mentioned outbound links to .gov, .edu, .org sites within the content (not citations at the end of the article), do I nofollow them all? Or leave a few dofollowed?

Really the in content links are up to you If you follow/nofollow.

Keep in mind that not bleeding traffic might be more important than outbound links, I'm guessing your trying to make a sale/conversion somewhere on the content page. Having 9 OBLs on a page is a lot of exit points for traffic to leave your page/domain.

Also keep in mind to use target = "_blank" in the OBLs HTML so that when traffic clicks an external link it opens a new browser/tab. That might help save a sale/conversion since your own domain/page browser/tab will still be open.

I wouldn't have 200 OBLs on a page, break it down & stay focused on the content/article your currently working on.

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sreejanniyogi

10 years ago

OBL count is too much. try cutting down on the 17 sites if the 9 links are absolutely necessary

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TLondon 10 years ago

Originally Posted by sreejanniyogi

OBL count is too much. try cutting down on the 17 sites if the 9 links are absolutely necessary

Why? How do you know it's too much?
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aadi14

10 years ago

Its good to have reference links on your blog/website. But making them Do follow will not make you stand anywhere. The number is too High. Just make them No follow.

Do you really want to drive traffic to other websites rather then keeping them on yours? How can it help you? Think and play the game in Senses. Yukon is right in this context.

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Vansskavv

10 years ago

Hi you should be doing social bookmarking site and more do follow sites

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rmacklyn

10 years ago

OBL links should be minimized. 17 is too high. One of the wiki link should be removed. Some other OBLs also need to be removed. Try to make the article look natural. That only would help for a better SEO.

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alex fernandes

10 years ago

Originally Posted by TLondon

So we concluded before that some linking out with dofollow to reputable sites can be beneficial, but I'm wondering how much is too much?

For example. I've got this article of 2000 words ready to be published. It has 26 outbound links. 9 links in the body of the content (to .edu sites like Harvard Medicine, to .gov like Medline's site, and a few to .org, including 1-2 Wiki links) and another 17 links at the bottom of the article as references, all to medical journals (majority to PubMed's National Center for Biotechnology Information, and a few links to some other medical journals of .org and .com domains).

Now, in this specific case, should I mark some of these nofollow, which ones and why?

Thank you!

Where are you going to publish it? Do you think any site will accept your article with 21 links? If you have your own blog, then it's Ok but still No Follow some links.

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TLondon

10 years ago

None of the "advice" past yukon's post is making any sense. Stop making stuff up out of thin air.

From my research - and please correct me if I'm wrong (and provide evidence) - the general consensus is that you should add nofollow only to those links that you don't endorse, period. What if I do endorse all 20 links? They're authority domains, with PR8 and over a million external backlinks from other authority sites linking to them.

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PBNPaddy

10 years ago

Originally Posted by TLondon

None of the "advice" past yukon's post is making any sense. Stop making stuff up out of thin air.

From my research - and please correct me if I'm wrong (and provide evidence) - the general consensus is that you should add nofollow only the links that you don't endorse, period. What if I do endorse all 20 links? They're authority domains, with PR8 and over a million external backlinks from other authority sites linking to them.

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It makes sense, think of the same situation in real life and then ask yourself the question again. What makes common sense, is usually perfect in the eyes on google.

RE: All 20 links?

What is your goal? SEO power? dofollow the money links and a few random others(mix it up always). Why should you care about whether google thinks that you should of endorsed example.com and you didnt? They are looking for you tell them what is worthy or not!

too much over thought

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Effortless

10 years ago

I think Dofollow links are better than no follow links. If the do follow links are form a high PR or high traffic gathered site then its very good for the site.

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cbpayne

10 years ago

Originally Posted by habibkhan01

Too many dofollow links are better than nofollow. But I think that any links from high page rank and domain authority is best to ranking high.

Originally Posted by Vansskavv

Hi you should be doing social bookmarking site and more do follow sites

Originally Posted by Effortless

I think Dofollow links are better than no follow links. If the do follow links are form a high PR or high traffic gathered site then its very good for the site.

Lots of posters in this thread with reading disability's.

Typical of the decline that has made many SEO forums useless and has been affecting WF in the last few months....soon going to be waste town full of nothing put idiotic parrots.

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TLondon

10 years ago

Originally Posted by cbpayne

Lots of posters in this thread with reading disability's.

Typical of the decline that has made many SEO forums useless and has been affecting WF in the last few months....soon going to be waste town full of nothing put idiotic parrots.

I think we're already past that point. It's becoming substantially difficult to discuss and draw conclusions on the issues or questions when "SEO experts" with their garbage sites and trashy ranking methods are trying to weigh-in on the "best way to do this." They can't even comprehend the idea that someone might actually build a Google-compliant website with no spam and 100% focus on helping the user for the purpose of brand-ability instead of milking the cow on every single page.

WF needs a few paid moderators here, because it's been dying out. All those updates that Freelancer is trying to add won't bring the credibility to WF after it loses it completely.

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cbpayne

10 years ago

Originally Posted by epiphanyinc

do follow and page authority website link benificial for ranking keword

Yet another with a reading disability! Did you even read this thread before posting?

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