Rel = no follow?

[scott315]

I am redoing a clients website. They previous company that built it have a page with links linking back to over 30 articles on webmd

Question is this doing any good for SEO

and if I recreate, should these have the rel=no follow attribute?
Here is is current page  http://www.forestparkdental.com/links/

Thanks

[AlexMcKee]

I wouldn't advise a client to link out to one site so much unless it was adding significant value to the page. This kind of "list of links" page is not particularly useful to visitors who could probably have found the webmd pages anyway and it doesn't add much to the content of the website. I suspect it was created in a misguided attempt to satisfy a criterion of linking to authority sites.

The page is also titled "Saint Louis Links" but AFAIK webmd is not a St Louis company.

You need to ask "am I doing this purely for the search engines/SEO purposes?" or for the visitors. If the latter you should nearly always go ahead with it but of course optimize it for SEO. If the former you should probably drop it as you should be building for your audience, not for search engine algorithms.

Edited to answer your direct question: if links are adding value to your content you should make them followed.

[scott315]

Ok thanks for the answers.