Can I link to websites that contain similar contents to my own and not be penalised by search engines if I use the rel=nofollow on the anchor tag?
Does no follow prevent my pages from search engine penalisation?
seo;pagerank;links;nofollow
Linking out, unless linking to a bad neighbourhood (spam, malware etc), will NOT get you penalized.Only add rel=nofollow to links that you can't vouch for, or that are paid links.Other than that, there is nothing to worry about.EDIT - for people who can't accept #1http://www.dailyblogtips.com/linking-out-google-pagerank/http://www.collegefallout.com/linking-out-will-not-reduce-google-pagerank/http://diovo.com/2010/02/the-flow-of-pagerank/And finally, in Matt Cutt's own statement on the matter, he specifically states that the decay is ONLY applied to OUTGOING links - not the page that is being linked FROM.http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/