Giving Follow Links is good for SEO ?

[zco_seo]

Hi Friends,

In my website I am having PR 5 for my home page and I am giving 25 external links as follow link.

Reason is all links are natural links so I gave as follow links.

Will my website will be decrease PR in future.

1) Should I need to give as nofollow links?

2) Can I update only for reciprocal links as nofollow? In total 25 links I have 3 reciprocal links only.

Your suggestions on this are important for me.

I had watched couple of videos from Matt Cutts on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4UJS-LFRTU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g37bwBlifnk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg1A5wF3Ac4

Thanks for your valuable time.

[zco_seo]

thanks Simon.

[zco_seo]

thanks Philipp.

[simon_realbuzz]

Links out to quality useful sites that are relevant to your niche will help your SEO efforts. There was a great WBF by Cyrus Shepard from a couple of years ago which is well worth checking out and is still very relevant today.

[zeepartner]

If the links are legit and connect to good sources I wouldn't nofollow them. Personally, I only use nofollow for paid ads (if they don't run via an adserver) and user generated content.

If you have those 25 links on a single page, it might be a bit too much - unless it's a link page or such. If the are spread on your entire domain, it's no problem.

Don't worry too much about the page rank and think about content and topic relation. If the sites you link to are topically closely related to your own content, then it can actually help your own rankings if they are of high quality. For instance, if your site is about rocket science, it makes good sense to link to nasa.gov (it would actually look strange if there is no link to this rocket-related authority). Not that I want to sound like matt cutts, but if these links add value to your users, then they deserve to be followed:)