Dear All, My site (the index page) has PR 4/10 - and the other pages are PR 3/10 in average. It is well ranked with to p keywords in major search engines including google.com This site has a lot of outbound links (not a link exchange). As I read that outbound links will decrease the PR, I am intending to put a tag of rel="nofollow" to those links. Do you think this is a good decision? Ranking is the only thing I am concerned about. Thanks
It depends whether you think this will affect how you get your content. If it's user supplied, they may stop posting if the links are nofollow (no inventive!). If you provide all the content yourself, then why not?
If the links are on topic you may want to consider keeping them active so Google credits you for the references. If you have a lot of links on your site you also want to perform a link audit on them every month to make sure they are still active, have pagerank and are not penalized in Google. Who you link to can have big postive and negative effects if not done correctly.
The outbound links must point to quality sites. I heard somewhere that outbound links can actually boost site's rank. In the mind of Google, outbound links show that you've done your research to put up a particular articular in your site.
It can be beneificial to link to well trusted and authoritative sites in your industry - such as governing bodies etc.
Putting the nofollow link will prevent passing on the link juice. If there's no obligation involved then why not just do it anyway?
Yes if u add the links of similar sites with no follow link it will definetly help u and dont harms ur ranking
If the (LINKS) to other websites/pages you are linking for are their because you think it might be helpful for your website visitors and you've added them by your own choice... Then go ahead and use the rel="nofollow" tag to prevent waisting your own PR Juice