Thanks for the quick response....I'm starting to feel like in on the way to the zoo
I also posted this on the google webmaster forum and two issues came up:
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to non-follow outgoing links (affiliate or ones that look paid)
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big increase in backlinks since early march using this tool:
mainly from my network and blog (not sure why this happened, I did update links to new urls on new site). Does SEOMOZ have a tool to see the history of backlinks in a graph?
- increase in backlink issue brought up the recommendation to non-follow links from blog and network
So my big question is the non-follow outgoing link issue. I run a kids fashion magazine and have pages on each designer - approx 450. Most of these links are not paid, as it is a resource for our readers. So....my question is should rel="nofollow" most of these links, all of these links, only those that are an affiliate link? (My affiliate links will be set as redirects from an internal link).
Also, from external blog and network, should all of the links back to the main site be rel="nofollow". If not, is this considered spam / penguin?
Thanks so much!