50 nofollow outbound links is too much?
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Hello,
I was reading that having many nofollow outbound links is bad for SEO.
Could somebody give me an idea how many is "many"?
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Hi,
I read and watched the video, but I don't see why I should add dofollow links? how does it help?
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Hello,
why? could you expand on this? -
Don't worry about this. You need to increase dofollow links.
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