Follow or Nofollow?
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Hi all,
I have a question, which I can not figure out the answer to.
I have a web site which collects sporting news articles so that users need only to go to one site to check news about a subject instead of going to all sorts of sites. On the site I simply link out (to over 300 sources).
My question is: The links (I have thousands and thousands per day) should they be follow or nofollow? Do I gain anything by having them set to follow. Or do I lose anything by setting them to nofollow?
The site is http://www.holdnyt.dk - if you want to see how many links are per page and so on.
-Rasmus
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Definitely no follow. You have nothing to lose and you protect yourself. You can be penalized by having so many dofollow links, nofollowing them completely protects your site and doesn't change your page juice or anything negative by nofollowing them.
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