wiseguy

Is it a good idea to place the rel=nofollow attribute in all outbound links?

dre

Im not expert, but I think this is used for protecting your pagerank. rel=nofollow on outbound links will not count toward the sites link, its basically useless unless you want the traffic.

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rel="nofollow" was designed, and should only be used for, when people are allowed to submit content like in blog replies. You shouldn't use it for any other reason..
If you want to protect your precious pagerank then don't bother linking out at all.

If you are posting the link then you should let spiders follow them. Think about it, what would happen if everyone done that? Im guessing you would be the first one to start moaning that your site wasn't getting indexed because all of your backlinks have a nofollow attribute on them.

So no, It's not a good idea to have a nofollow attribute on all outgoing links.

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wiseguy

I really don't give a crap about pagerank. It's the most worthless concept that Google has ever come up with and has little or nothing to do with position in the search results. However, the sad fact is that many sites will not link to you if you have a low pagerank. To clarify my original question, I'm referring to a site that consists primarily of affiliate links. These are all one way links to other sites. Wouldn't it help to use the rel=nofollow in these links?

kenni

If you apply "rel=nofollow" to all outgoing links, you are giving no credit whatsoever to that website which isn't a very nice thing (you are better off not linking to the website altogether). Like stOx stated, if everyone added rel=nofollow to their outgoing links then the Google search structure wouldn't work very well aswell. The bottom line is, if you are linking to a good worthy website, don't add the nofollow onto it -- give it some credit .

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megrisoft

I have also same advice that you should not make "no-follow" for the important websites or informational websites, sometimes these provide reverse page rank also because linking to informational web sites also a good factor in determining page rank and website quality

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Are you sure? There seems many here that consider otherwise.

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stOx

Lots of people think PR is important... But they are wrong.
Why would it be important?

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PageRank is one of around a hundred factors that Google uses in the SERPs algorithm. I suspect it's one of the more important ones. On the one end it's not useless and on the other it shouldn't be given as much importance as relevance in backlinks.

Using nofollow in outbound links does not prevent PR from 'leaking' because PR doesn't work this way. PR should be thought of as a vote. Nothing is lost from the voter. It is a sliding logarithmic scale and not like a limited bucket to give to different pages.

Nofollow involves Google's TrustRank. When you use nofollow you are saying that you can't vouch for the site you are linking to. That's why it's meant to be used in blog posts to combat spamming.

Of course, if you link to bad neighbourhoods, you can see your PR go to 0 but that's not because it leaked; it's because you got penalized.

It's OK to have affiliate links on your site as long as you don't have too many and you have enough original content on there. It would be a misuse of nofollow to have it in affiliate links and I'm not sure what the search engines would do about this.

The best solution I've seen to hide affiliate links is to link to a page within a folder of your own site that is blocked by robots.txt. That way the SEs will see it as an internal link. On the page that you link to, you have a script to create the affiliate link based on a parameter in the query string or something to that effect.

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Then why does iWebTool use it extensively all over the forum?
Seems people in charge here feel it's a good idea to look after Pm and not let it leak out and into unimportant areas, like members profiles.

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