Can NoFollow Links Hurt SEO Efforts?
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Hi Mozzers'
I've been doing some research on a few sites and found that one or two contain allot of nofollow links, can these have a negative effect on seo efforts?
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Also see this recent thread: http://moz.com/community/q/forum-website-rel-nofollow-is-this-good#reply_173347
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In many, circumstances, nofollow links are exactly what you want. They protect your site from outbound linking situations that Google could think was manipulative, such as passing on link juice to sites that are advertising and sites that are in some way paying you for the link. Nofollows to spammy/ low quality sites and to those that you cannot attest to their quality also help you from appearing to manipulate rankings for those sites.
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