Forbes Contributor - Bio Link (Yes or No?)

[tnace]

I'm a geologist and Forbes contributor (https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/). I also am the founder of Science Trends (http://sciencetrends.com). I recently started Science Trends about a month ago and am wondering if there is benefit or harm in putting a link in my Forbes bio for Science Trends? The link would be on every article I write on Forbes (150+ as of now). I'd like to publicize Science Trends to my Forbes readers but I don't want to jeopardize a bad link profile on Science Trends. Any suggestions/tips?

[tnace]

Thanks everyone for your input, I'll keep the link on there. your responses summed up my opinion but wanted to double check with some other experienced folks.

[LureCreative]

Hi Trevor, I believe you will be ok and may even experience a rankings benefit for what you are trying to rank for with sciencetrends.com. To be honest, a lot of SEOs and website owners would love to be in your position lol.

I say go ahead with it and worst case scenario, if it causes any issues for you, just delete it from your profile and request a re-index of your website through Google Search Console.

[andy.bigbangthemes]

Hah! Go for it Trevor, this is a totally natural link from a really great resource. it's highly unlikely for G to look at any links coming from Forbes as being nasty. Just go ahead and go for it, albeit nofollow or dofollow, it's going to be a great resource for you either way. And yes, the link is definitely dofollow. Super awesome.

Cheers,

Andy

[tnace]

Thanks for your input Martijn. It'll be a total of a 150+ Forbes links (one for each article I write). If you think that's ok. I assume Google is smart enough nowadays to figure out that it's my other business and I'm not trying to be malicious in telling my Forbes readers about my main business.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hey!

Sure, just include the link. Adding some links from Forbes isn't gonna hurt. Links from there might be already devalued anyway from Googles side as they're linking out to everybody these days. For your site though it still remains to be a valuable source of links.

Martijn.

[tnace]

Yep, it's follow as you can see here at the bottom of the article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/08/28/harveys-unprecedented-flooding-could-unload-25-trillion-gallons-water/

Anyone else have thoughts on whether to include the link or not?

[GastonRiera]

Are you sure that it will be follow in your article description? 
It usually is follow in the profile page, but not in the article.

Well, no one better than you to know where the link will go.
If you strongly believe that it could harm you, don´t do it.

In my opinion, it´s ok.

[tnace]

The link is follow, and no way to "no-follow" the link from what I can tell. I agree it is natural in that I am linking to my main business in my Forbes bio. However, I don't want Google to see it as spammy because I'm getting lots of follow links from Forbes one month after starting Science Trends. Also, Forbes articles get copied from other sites which could mean follow links from content curation sites.

[GastonRiera]

Hello Trevor,

It is really likely that it has a nofollow tag.
Even though, I dont see that it could harm you. Its a totally natural link.

Best Luck.
GR