TO NOFOLLOW OR NOT
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Hey Everyone...
Just got a quick question I haven't really ever found a straight answer to. I have a sports blog. Part of the blog is writing my own articles and the other part is putting together posts that have a collection of links to other good articles. An example post link is below.
http://frogfanreport.com/tcu-news/frog-fan-tcu-news-links-1612/
The question is whether I should be setting these posts as NOFOLLOW?
During football season I have a link collection post daily but during the off-season i may post every couple of days.
zach
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Nofollow sites that you don't trust. Some people will also nofollow links to direct competitors, which is understandable. Nofollow can and arguably should be used for user-generated content that you can't monitor regularly, such as blog comments, etc.
Don't use it for quality content that your readers would find valuable. Alan is correct that nofollowing links will not give more "link juice" to your own site, so you have little to gain.
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No argument. I don't disagree. I said that putting nofollow on a resource page would help pass less page rank and probably help your rankings initially. But a great resource page that people will want to link to because it is useful always has the ability to rank no matter if it contains follow or nofollow links. As I said in my first response, I prefer to always give follows on my links because I feel if I think they're good enough to link to then they deserve the credit. Apologies if I didn't make that more clear in my first response.
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Hi Chase, a page with nothing more than outgoing links to high quality sites, all with cohesive relevance, will rank and rank well. I use this type of "resource page" all the time. An example here: http://golf-newz.com/world-golf-stats
That page has ranked for months with nothing more than outgoing links (the links you see at the bottom). Only recently I added the stats drop downs and frankly, they actually negatively affected my ranking. The page was ranking better with nothing more than outgoing links.
I don't mean to start an argument but, well chosen outbound links, with tight relevance work and I have found them to work in numerous industries.
I do see people saying that they don't but, they do.
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Only no follow if you think that pages your linking to are of very low quality and may damage your reputation. No follows will not save you any link juice, they just don’t give it to the linked page.
You may want to add a description for each links, that will help your rankings, rather than a no-follow -
n my opinion, your page was more of resource page that you needed to rank highly then I would say it would be smart to put nofollows on the page. But, I don't typically subscribe to this. My feeling is that if you feel a site is worth linking to, then the right thing to do is give them the credit they deserve. But, with pages like yours where they are basically just links with no content, you'll not be ranking anyways for them -- these pages seem to be more for returning visitors who are interested in what you consistently have to say. I'd give follow links on your pages, especially since they seem to be to high quality sites like ESPN.
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