I want to create templates to give away, that have the links to my sites on the bottom of it. My question is, will this hurt my Search Engine ranking if I do this, or will I have to add the nofollow attribute in order to not hurt the Search Engine ranking? Thanks, Kyle
the nofollow tag is used only if you don't want the search engine to follow the link. if you are creating templates for the intention of having link backs from those sites you shouldn't put the tag.
It *may* hurt your PR if the templates are used for websites that use Blackhat search practices - it's not very likely though. Your ranking is more likely to benefit more than suffer Good luck!