For what it's worth, there are many indications that using more than a few no-follow links on your website 1) hurts your SEO standing, and 2) still passes Link

For what it's worth, there are many indications that using more than a few no-follow links on your website 1) hurts your SEO standing, and 2) still passes Link Juice to the external website (just slightly less than its do-follow counterpart). This happened after Google discovered that people were abusing no-follow - by trying to hoard the website's weight and not sharing it with anybody.