This may be a stupid question, but do you get any credit (juice, pr, whatever you want to call it) for outgoing links - particularly relevant ones to high authority sites? As I type this, I realize the obvious answer of "NO".... cause if they did give PR juice, then anyone could link to 1000 PR10 sites to get ranked. I'm going to hit this submit button anyway...
Your correct, outbound links have no "positive" effects on your website, however if not careful you can actually create a negative effect linking to the wrong website or bleed out your Pagerank.
Thanks ssandecki... I'm aware of the negative effects it can have, and I'm careful about who I link to (which is very few sites)... Does anyone have thoughts on that? I only have backlinks to highly related and authority sites, or sites that I use information from (of course, with proper consent). I've heard people say things like "give backlinks, and you're get [natural] backlinks"... Is it dumb to continue keeping my outgoing links to a minimum?
You want the secret to building quality backlinks? It's called creating unique quality content people would want to link to.
"This may be a stupid question, but do you get any credit (juice, pr, whatever you want to call it) for outgoing links" If there was any credit for outgoing links, then people would put google, yahoo etc links on there sites to get PR To increase your PR, or search results ranking, you need quality backlinks.
This is, of course, the common consensus - and I completely agree with it. I don't see how few outgoing links could hinder the potential of obtaining IBLs... that doesn't really make sense to me.
Outbound links really have no effect on the links built to your site, I'm not going to ruin a one-way backlink by linking back to someone who linked to me.
Exactly... very true. This brings up another point. I have a BL from a high authority/PR .gov site. BUT, we HAVE to link back to them (not because it's a reciprocal, but because by boss wants to). I was contemplating making the link NOFOLLOW so that we can get full juice from it. But recently swithed it to a normal dofollow link because I figure that 'if it sounds shady or like gray/black hat, then it probably is'. I try to stay 100% white-hat SEO. PS - the links aren't to the same pages (they link to one of our pages, and on we're linking to a different one of their pages, on a different page - huh? did that make sense?)