Should I remove my nofollows?

There seems to be a lot of confusion. Can someone cite something specific on Google's help about this topic?

 

Well if you removed them all, whatever advantage to those links will be gone which would be unfortunate for the owners of those links, but I think it helps that you link to others

 

Nofollow links though not crawled through Google,but overall contributes to generating traffic to your site..!!
So removing them will definitely not going to profit you, but surely loose links for your site..!!!

 

I do not remove the no follows, you have to keep a mixing follow and nofollow, but most of them be nogolow, if you eliminate the nofolow attribute it can hurt your pagerank definitely.

 

once said by Matt Cutts a link is a link, if the backlink is related to your niche even when its nofollow. Google will grant the permission

 

As long as it has substance crawlers will search for any vital info from any webpage/site. Focus more on quality because quality content still prevails all the time.

 

I think it gives Google a nice balance that you regard other people's sites rather than have a site for your own interest, if you allow no-follows

 

rel="nofollow" is basically used to avoid passing page rank to the particular link. So keep nofollow as is.

 

Don't remove your NoFollow links. Those will helpful to increase your websites' traffic.

 

I think it would be nice to give the search engines the ideas that you mix your links

 

I think it's a good idea to give the search engines the impression that you are getting both type of links

 

safe to not remove it, just keep it there. would be worse if get removed

 

Tough to choose between PR and traffic.

 

But who cares parge rank these days?

I am considering removing nofollow because...

1. they are not part of the standard
2. Google stopped obeying them. They don't have a purpose now.

Any more thoughts?

 

I think it is best to have a mix of Followable links and No-Follow links as the link building looks more natural in googles eyes!

 

Exactly, nofollow helps to maintain your own page rank, and protects you from potentially associating your site with bad content that is outside of your control. Unless you can personally review each link, you are best to leave them as they are.

 

According to the new Google SEO guidelines, all links should be dofollow.