Am I draining PR from my site?

I have been adding about 5 new links to my site (PR4 at present) in last few weeks.
How many more outbound links will I be able to add, before I start to drain PR from my site: http://advanet.blogspot.com ?

 

As many as you wish.

PageRank is determined by incoming links. PR is not affected by outgoing links.

I assume you have been reading the nonsense spread all over the net by wannabe Google experts about "PR bleed" or "PR leakage". It's a myth. It doesn't exist and never has existed.

Forget about it.

 

I agree with minstrel, you can eventually redistribute your PR by adding links but you dont lose it..and if you add too many links, those sites will each take less.. so here is the only leakage.

 

That's very insightful. I always believed PR leaks/drains by outgoing links (there were some formulae on internet with linked-in and linked-out links are factors)

 

True, but that this rule applies to a single page, not to a website. You may influence the distribution of received PR on your site. But this discussion is academic anyway. I wish Google would drop toolbar PR... it would simplify lives of a lot of people.

 

And if you are afraid of losing PR over link exchange you could be evil and add iframe in your links page. Page inside iframe could be located in whole another server. This way you won't give any of your PR away. Am I right? Of course I don't recommend this option. It's not very polite thing to do to your link exchange partners.

 

yeh i remember someone here selling PR7 links with the no follow tag in the links..would that have prevented the PR transfer to the new links?

 

Yes - nofollow means nobenefit.

 

I think that would only prevent search engines following the link, not counting it as backlink.

 

Now that either very ignorant or very daring. Considering this forum is full of webmasters who knows what nofollow means

 

It could be worthwhile here to remind us about rel=nofollow which means do not follow the links.
So that the search engine spider will not crawl the targeted page, but it will follow the links and crawl the next pages.
Am I right?

 

No. It means that Google will not follow the link at all. And therefore it will not spider anything at the end of that link - or at least not as a result of the link with the "nofollow" tag.