Making outbound links that have been cached nofollow. What's the impact?

[buguela]

Hello Guys,

I have a question: I received an e-mail from a webmaster complaining about an editorial link that we had in a blog article from last year. I do believe they found our blog as a bad neighborhood to their website and that link supiscious for that reason they asked to remove it. So, due to this fact we decided to put nofollow for all of our outbound links on the blog, in order to avoid any problem for the websites we are linking to. But we're also thinking on removing all the outbound links. These links are there for years.

Do you guys have any idea about the impact of putting nofollow on all of those external links on our blog?

Thanks in advance,

[aakk9999]

I know of someone who has done it to their forum some time ago and there was no negative impact, but it was few years back and forums may behave differently.

I believe you are talking about links in the blog article and not in the comments? Are you linking to authoritative sites?

Why do you think they found your blog as a bad neighbourhood? They might have been penalised and might have been removing links indiscriminatorily.

If you got only one link removal request, maybe you should just nofollow or remove that link. If your links are editorially given, and you were asked only once to remove a link from your site, I cannot see the point right now to change all (non-comment) links to nofollow or to remove them.