No Follow and reciprocal links

[SamCUK]

I just wondered by adding no follow to a reciprocal link (one link only not the link on both sites) does it become a one way link? I have some reciprocal link partners who are more interested in traffic from my site than link juice which is irrelevent to them. Am I better adding no follow to those links at my end?

[Fastbraces]

If you have a link on your page, and it's not to a shady website, best practice is to leave it normal.  As Mr. Hussaini said, "Adding Nofollow couple of years ago could have saved your SEO juice and passed on to other dofollow pages, but as of now, that nofollow goes into a blackhole".

[EGOL]

I would give them a normal link.  The better they rank the more traffic you get, the more power they have the more they send back to you.

As long as these links are useful to visitors and in places that they will see with the content I don't think that the fact that they are recip is important.

Great websites link to other great websites every day.

[SamCUK]

So as the link juice is only flowing one way does that mean I will benefit from adding no follow to such a link?

[Syed1]

Adding Nofollow couple of years ago could have saved your SEO juice and passed on to other dofollow pages, but as of now, that nofollow goes into a blackhole so it hardly matters much.

However, if the site your linking to a shady site or a site that is in a shady neighbourhood, you definitely want to use nofollow for that - otherwise you could be part of that shady neighbourhood yourself. In my opinion, a lot of these sites that exchange links leave lot of messy traces behind and do not have a clean profile. If I were you, I would most likely put a nofollow or even more likely, I'd putting my efforts in different strategies like guest blogging.

[mediabase]

Hi Samuel,
I don't think so - because if if u put the link no follow the search engine can still see(find) the link on your page - so they know that it is a reciprocal link - even if they don't follow the link to the other page.

Harry

[SEODinosaur]

Search engines still follow "nofollow" links they just dont count them, however a reciprocal link is not necessarily harmfull if there is good relevancy between the sites.