Shell we provide dofollow outbound links from our website?

[saurabh1905]

Hello,

I am little confused about providing dofollow links from our website. We have a social shopping website where users can create catalog of their favorite products by bookmarking them from other websites, so our website might have thousands of outbound links.

Now the confusion is whether we should have these links "nofollow" or "dofollow"? As per my understanding dofollow links will pass juice to other websites but on the other hand it might benefit us as well, sellers might come and bookmark their products for getting dofollow links.

I read somewhere that if we have quality outbound links around a topic, google treats us as hub for that topic. But I am not clear if we will get this advantage only when these links are dofollow?

Please help.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi,

Based on what you say, there is no way I could suggest that you do this. I have no doubt that this would come back and bite you hard. Google would look at why you are providing dofollow links (to get more people to the site) and probably penalise you.

You can be just as useful a service without having to provide dofollow links in this manner.

-Andy

[saurabh1905]

Hello Andy,

Thanks for quick response.

Lets assume that I dont want to provide dofollow link to get more people on my website. What about being considered as a hub? Will I be considered as hub if I provide dofollw links only?

Thanks

[Andy.Drinkwater]

A 'hub' isn't categorised based on if it offers a nofollow or dofollow link. As you have already said, you are considering dofollow for potentially thousands of outbound links as you think others might like it.

I can see no good argument that you should consider or implement this.

-Andy

[KeriMorgret]

And once your site gets out there as a place with followed links, you'll have more spam issues to deal with than you'll want.