How many outbound links in one page?

Hi, how many outbound links do you have in one page? Will having 12 outbound links in my index page cause my pagerank to drop? like say from a 3 to 2? it will be great if any google experts can help me with this question.

 

The PageRank on your index page won't drop no matter how many links you got on it, but it could affect the PR of your internal pages.

 

any more experts want to give their opinions?

 

12 outgoing links on a page are not going to affect the PageRank of your page.

PageRank is determined by quality and quantity of incoming links, not outgoing links.

 

Keep it less than 10 and you'll be safe.

 

Balderdash. See my post above. How many outgoing links are there on the average page in DMOZ or Yahoo Directory?

 

Huh?

Well anyway. Too many outgoing links from one page looks spammy. Matt Cutts himself also suggested to keep it below 10. And I wasn't talking about PR.

 

Where exactly did he say that? Link? And in what context, if he said it at all?

I repeat: How many outgoing links do you see on an average DMOZ or Yahoo Directory page? How badly hurt are they by more than 10 outgoing links?

 

If you are so much concerned, mark all those outgoing links as nofollow. You are then nice in search engine eyes.

 

hi, those out going links are paid.. couldn't make them no follow, my advertisers will be damn angry if i do so..

 

Try increasing the number of pages then and distribute the links.

Paid Links , be aware from Google

 

increase the number of pages.. do u mean pages in my whole website? how does it help?

 

Your problem is the number of links in one single page as you mentioned earlier. So i am saying increase the number of pages and reduce the number of links in each page.

 

There isn't a problem. He has 12 outgoing links. What do you think that's going to do? Nothing.

Just leave it as it is. You're fine.

 

It will be safer if you continue build good links to your site.

 

LOL.. some popular sites like DP,digg,etc have 100's of outbound links on the homepage.
So, it doesn't matter.

 

How Google recognizes what is paid what is not paid link?

 

On one page (sig link #3 below), I have nearly 130 outgoing links to other pages within my website. When the home page has had PR5, this page has had PR4. When the home page has had PR4, this page has had PR3. It is obvious that the nearly 130 outgoing links are not killing this page's PR.

 

"How Google recognizes what is paid what is not paid link?"

They usually can't unless you're using a service like TLA...

 

as far as i know, maximum amount is 100.