'Nofollow' footer links from another site, are they 'bad' links?
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Hi everyone,
one of my sites has about 1000 'nofollow' links from the footer of another of my sites. Are these in any way hurtful? Any help appreciated.. -
You do not have anything to worry about it these links are all no-followed. They are even helpful for the sake of diversifying your no-follow vs do-follow ratios. No follow links have been proven to pass certain metrics to linked sites and this to can be helpful, so I would not change them if it was me.
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Nofollow links do not count for or against you as far as penalties go. Considering that Google requests that template attribution links and paid links all go nofollow, you should be fine as-is
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