Outbound Links as References - use nofollow or not?
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Hey People
We run an ecommerce site and we research and wrote articles on health topics , and we post the references on the articles in posts ( Magento site / Wordpress for articles )
Should I be putting rel=nofollow in the outbound links or not?
I have read a few different posts but none seem to definitively fit my situation.
Kind Regards
Martin -
Passing page juice to sources is a good idea in most cases. Moreover, if you are linking to websites with good quality and unique content, you must pass the page juice for sure.
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For sure, go ahead and make those regular links. You have no reason to tell Google that "I don't trust these links".
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Thanks for the quick reply
Our writer is a doctor , so many of his references are .edu sites or pubmed trials etc - so certainly the links will be trusted - and I know that if you have inbound links from sites like that they are gold - just not sure about outbound . I guess it shows some credibility that the articles are researched ...? Just not sure how Google Views those.
Thanks
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Do you trust the links? Did anyone pay you for them (monetary or trade)?
If you trust them, and it's something you'd put in an email to a family member, don't put on a nofollow. If they're links someone asked you to put there, consider putting on a nofollow.
Does that help, or just muddy the waters more?
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