(Entry was posted by Robin Shields Harris on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 12/17/2020).

I have a question about no-follow or do-follow links

I am new to SEO and had a question about no-follow or do follow links. If a company wants to put a paid/sponsored article on our website and request a do follow link, is this a good idea? How does it help or hurt our website? We recently got flagged by Google for a post and we do not want this to happen again. Up until now, we had not done no-follow links because we didn`t know to do so. Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.

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Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

Caronda Hampton: Anything that sends people away from your site hurts you unless you`re getting paid for it
Jim Munro: Any links that they pay for must be nofollow. There is no middle ground.
Teras Hosang: Depend the priceDo follow far more expensive than no followâ€¦
Jayasanker Jayakrishnan: If you`re under scanner, i suggest you use "no-follow." Otherwise, Google will deem that your links wont pass link equity.
Michael Martinez: "We recently got flagged by Google for a post and we do not want this to happen again."That answers your question right there. Don`t sell links without "nofollow" or "sponsored" attributes or you`ll face worse from Google.