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Will a lot of nofollow links hurt my site?

July 3, 2012 By Natan Gesher

Magic SEO Ball says: Ask again later.

Ask again later.

Magic SEO Ball fundamentally accepts Google’s contention that a relatively high number of nofollow links won’t hurt your site’s ranking. But this acceptance is with a caveat: those nofollow links won’t necessarily hurt your rankings now, but this may be something that is addressed in future algorithm updates, whether by adjusting a current ranking factor like Penguin or by adding a new one. You need to ask yourself whether your backlinks profile is abnormal for your industry or niche; if the answer is yes, is that because of something dodgy that you’ve done or because you’re the only one building links the clean way while your competitors are all dodgy?

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