should put nofollow at outgoing links?

nofollow, links

[johnlim9988]

Hi,

In many pages, we link out to many useful pages which the readers will be interested.

For these outgoing links, should we put
rel="nofollow" or not?

Thanks.

[tedster]

If they are useful pages, why would you want to tell Google that you "don't vote for them"? I would say do not put rel="nofollow" on those links -- that's not what it was created for.

[johnlim9988]

But why www.wikipedia.org always put nofollow at the links?

[mattg3]

But why www.wikipedia.org always put nofollow at the links?

They would say to divert SEOs from entering their pages.

[johnlim9988]

IF we put rel="nofollow" to the trusted resources in our website, will this affect our site ranking in google?

[johnlim9988]

Will it affect our keyword ranking if we put rel="nofollow" to the trusted resources in our website? Thanks.

[hvacdirect]

Who you link to is also part of the content of the site. So possibly adding nofollow to all your links will remove some of the value the page has. I can't see it improving them at all, or every site would just put nofollow on all their links, and that wouldn't be too good for the web.

If the links are good and not to competitors, I wouldn't consider nofollow. Nofollow has evolved from its inception but I don't think its ever been mentioned in this capacity.

Now if your links are just affiliate links, then that's a different story, but if you are using them as reference to beef up your content nofollow is not called for.