I'm not sure this is in the right place, but I have a few questions about implementing No Follows on links. I've been working on my relocation site and building pages that will hopefully aid my visitors such as a city golf page , school page etc... Now on something like my school page, I have a link going out to each individual schools website, and a link going out for each individual schools report card. So in this situation do I want to add no follows for each link? Otherwise I'm going to have like 75 links going out from one page.

Here's the example of one of the pages that I'm working on. By the way, I know the site's a mess, but it's not live yet and I'm working on it. ha.

http://dev47.rewdev.com/scottsdaleschooldistrict.php

Thank you.

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Scottsdale Real Estate
McDowell Mountain Ranch Real Estate
DC Ranch Real Estate

In this case I don't think a no follow is really necessary. It will be interesting what the community says on that one.

I think that page is very well done, and certainly will have some value to your visitors. I think you should warn about the pdf links though. I hate clicking a link only to find out I'm opening a cursed pdf.

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Lydia Taylor, Realtor & Broker

Augusta GA Real Estate | North Augusta SC Real Estate | Augusta GA Home Search

Lydia,

Thanks for the feedback. That's funny you say that about PDF's. I'm the same way. I didn't even think of that.

Thanks again for your feedback. Hopefully I can get some more input.

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McDowell Mountain Ranch Real Estate
DC Ranch Real Estate

BarryC - There are very few reasons that you would want to apply a no follow to content contributed by yourself, and conservation of pagerank should not be one of them. In this case I would not apply no follows, you are linking to those pages because you respect them as resources for your visitors, and they are valid links

Typically you want to use the nofollow tag in cases like blog comments, forums or other instances where there is the opportunity for users other than yourself to contribute content to your website and have it slip past moderation.

Another reason you might want to use a no follow is duplicate content: Printable pages are a good example of this, if you have 2 pages with essentially the same content, Google will pick one or the other 2 show. Likely the well designed page (Not the printable page) is the one you want users to see if they are on Google searching, so you would no follow your printable page so that there is no chance for Google to pick the wrong version of the page.

There are other reasons I could get into (I might just have to write an article on this) but for your specific case, you are good with no follows

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