I have a Wordpress blog that is about eight weeks old. I'm showing up on pages two and three for some of the keywords that I'm trying to rank for and I'm trying to work my way up with backlinking, et cetera. The training material that I am following suggested that I start adding some outgoing links to authority sites using keywords in anchor text that are related to my niche but are not keywords that I'm trying to rank for myself. I started doing that a few days ago and I've noticed that my position has dropped several spots on most of the keywords that I've been monitoring. Could this have something to do with the outgoing links I added or is it just a coincidence? Thanks
It will not hurt neither it will gain anything for your site. If you get incoming links from authority sites then it will be a hell of a good for your site.
I don't think it should have hurt you. It's only logical that a site links to the authority sites in it's niche. Just maybe make sure it's related closely enough. I'm thinking that adding these links is probably did not have a direct effect on lowering your rank. Google is a tricky little machine. Good luck!
more outgoing links only affect your pagerank not serp. the chance are : - there new competitors within your keyword niche, that google think more qualified than your webpages - your competitor adding more quality backlink than you - you buildup backlink to fast (google suspect you being cheat) or the backlink you added don't have a quality anyone want to add up ?