Outbound Links as References - use nofollow or not?

[s_EOgi_Bear]

Hey People

We run an ecommerce site and we research and wrote articles on health topics , and we post the references on the articles in posts ( Magento site / Wordpress for articles )

Should I be putting rel=nofollow in the outbound links or not?

I have read a few different posts but none seem to definitively fit my situation.

Kind Regards
Martin

[KeriMorgret]

Do you trust the links? Did anyone pay you for them (monetary or trade)?

If you trust them, and it's something you'd put in an email to a family member, don't put on a nofollow. If they're links someone asked you to put there, consider putting on a nofollow.

Does that help, or just muddy the waters more?

[s_EOgi_Bear]

Thanks for the quick reply

Our writer is a doctor , so many of his references are .edu sites or pubmed trials etc - so certainly the links will be trusted - and I know that if you have inbound links from sites like that they are gold - just not sure about outbound .  I guess it shows some credibility that the articles are researched ...?  Just not sure how Google Views those.

Thanks

[KeriMorgret]

For sure, go ahead and make those regular links. You have no reason to tell Google that "I don't trust these links".

[mstoic]

Passing page juice to sources is a good idea in most cases. Moreover, if you are linking to websites with good quality and unique content, you must pass the page juice for sure.