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    • williammarlow
      williammarlow last edited by

      I decided to create a page on my website where I would list all of my favorite resources and 3rd party tools.  There are now 35 links in the main content section of the page, all with anchor text, pointing to  websites in my industry.  My question is this: what is the best practice here? Should I add nofollow tags to the links? Should I do something else to indicate that these links shouldn't be crawled? Frankly, I don't mind passing some link juice to these tools (in this case, and from this particular website), but I might make a different decision with a client's website.  Does anyone have any thoughts on this?  Here is the page I'm referring to, in case anyone wants to look:  http://willmarlow.com/resources-2/the-digital-marketing-toolbox/.

      Thanks!

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      • MarkHodson
        MarkHodson last edited by

        I really can't see any reason for adding nofollow tags to these links. They are trusted sites, after all. And all that stuff about PageRank sculpting has been discredited now. Keep building the page - I'm going to bookmark it!

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        • williammarlow
          williammarlow @MarkHodson last edited by

          Sweet! Thanks for the input.  I thought that PageRank sculpting had died, but wasn't sure if there was some lingering risk of letting your pagerank disappear through outbound links, even to high quality websites.

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