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Originally Posted by EverythingEverywhere
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I am working the kewords "travel blog" which is super competitive. 247,000,000 that google comes up with.
I went from page 3 to page 2 after making the "nofollow" changes.
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Congratulations!
What you've done with the nofollow is lower your outgoing link density. Most blogs have way too many outgoing links because of sidebar widgets.
It is still beneficial, though, to link out to sites that Google considers to be authority sites. You're, in effect, citing your sources and showing Google that your site is credible, in the same way that a research paper is credible if it cites credible sources.
What you want to nofollow are links in the sidebar like your RSS subscription, etc. Pretty much anything that appears in the sidebar that isn't an internal link or an external link you specifically want to follow (e.g. another site you own, or a site you have some sort of arrangement with).
Links in posts are meant to be follow links, unless they're to spam sites you link to as a negative example.
Jay