rel="nofollow" on links - Good or Bad

Whilst having rel="nofollow" on outbound links helps conserve PageRank, I now feel it's a bad idea UNLESS you run a Link farm.

Search Engines will also rank your pages based on your outbound links. If you link to quality sites with only a handful of outbound links on a page, then adding rel="nofollow" will prevent search engines knowing how good your site is based on your outbound links.

If on the other hand you have a link farm with all types of links, then rel="nofollow" would benefit your site.

What do others feel about this? Makes sense to me.

Makes sense to me too,lets see what the experts have to say about it.

Me too...

I agree with your assessment. In general, I'd avoid linkfarms, and focus on only linking to high quality sites with authority within your niche.

Question along these lines, does this hack work with 3.6.x

vBSEO Conditional Signatures at vBSEO.com

I noticed it was from March 06, do you guys still recommend it (minus the rel="nofollow" aspect?

3.6.x has alot of great options regarding signatures, so looking for advise as to what route to go with here.

Thanks in advance.

Yeah it works fine for me as I'm running on 3.6 already but my question is, if I set the signatures to rel="nofollow", what would this mean exactly? Sorry for the dumb question but I know NOTHING about the conditional signatures hack.

vBSEO Conditional Signatures mod is running fine on forums with vBulletin 3.6.x

When corresponding option is selected rel="nofollow" is added to all links in the signature instead of removing sig altogether.