Outbound Links - does it affects PR?

Discussion in 'Google' started by rodlip, Feb 29, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi to all,

    Just need some inquiry about the possible mistakes I've done to my site recently. I put a lot of outbound links (site wide). I promoted it a lot these past 3 months, but it did not receive any PR.

    Does these outbound links affected my suppose to be page rank today?

    Please post you opinion, all point of views are welcome and will be appreciated.

    Thanks a lot
     
    rodlip, Feb 29, 2008 IP
  2. gr8liverpoolfan

    gr8liverpoolfan Notable Member

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    #2
    It isn't supposed to, unless you were " penalised " for link selling ( a drop in PR )

    But looking at your statement that it didn't receive any PR, it seems that you didn't build enough links to warrant an increase in PageRank.
     
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  3. FREE BET

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    #3
    you need high quality and hopefully high pr links to aid in increasing your pr
     
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  4. rodlip

    rodlip Active Member

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    Thanks a lot guys.

    I am working also on that part (high pr link site) using social bookmarking and some directory submission.
     
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  5. articledirectory

    articledirectory Peon

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    #5
    Outbound links will affect your site PR unless you use the NOFOLLOW attribute.
     
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  6. w3bmaster

    w3bmaster Notable Member

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    #6
    When you put a link on your homepage you transfer pr to that site
     
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  7. astup1didiot

    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    #7
    There is a large debate if outbound links effect internal Pagerank distributation, no definite answer has come from Google regarding this. The assumption is the links you have off-page, meaning point off the web page regardless on on-site or off-site will effect the Pagerank value being distributed to each link. I would assume your bleeding out your Pagerank to all these outbound links.
     
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  8. igme

    igme Banned

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    #8
    Well, I think sitewide is less value than the proper link exchange.And its affect the PR
     
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  9. mickmel

    mickmel Peon

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    #9
    Outbound links don't affect PR on that page, but they certainly affect the PR of other links on your site. You're passing some of your PR to outside links, leaving less to pass to your other pages.

    Remember that PR is PageRank, not SiteRank. Each page is graded on its own. If you keep all of your links internal, you'll pass more PR to your own pages and likely increase their PR.

    That being said, a complete lack of outbound links probably isn't wise. The bottom line is to create useful content for your visitors and often times that means good OBLs.
     
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    tsukara Banned

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    #10
    The more outbound links you put on your site will affect your PR. Try to put nofollow attribute on every link to prevent the PR link juice to be passed to other site.
     
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  11. rodlip

    rodlip Active Member

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    I think the "no follow" option will be the solution. Hopefully my link exchange partners will agree on this.

    Thanks a lot.
     
    rodlip, Feb 29, 2008 IP
  12. mickmel

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    From a moral standpoint, I don't just apply a blanket nofollow. I certainly nofollow a lot of OBLs on my sites, but if I'm linking to a free, valuable site, I think the site deserves the link juice. Something to keep in mind.
     
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  13. tonyfloyd

    tonyfloyd Well-Known Member

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    #13
    so..how do link directories have a PR?..if all the links on a directory are outgoing?...
     
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    domainpubber Active Member

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    #14
    If you have external links without "nofollow" and your competitor reports it to G as "paid links" you may not like the results. These days, any link could be suspect to the elephant.
     
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  15. Australianfranchises

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    #15
    Excellent explanation.

     
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  16. dhana_space1

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    #16
    NO...Way...

    from my experience...but...it should not be a Junk page, with useless content.
    The page should have some value in it.
     
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  17. dpking

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    #17
    social bookmarking: they normally have no-follow link.
    directory submission: Go for max 10 a day .. and only high quality directories !
     
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    redhits Notable Member

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    #18
    Only in a negative way if you link to bad neighbors , but not into a positive way if you link to microsoft or to google.com even if the website it's webmaster related. (if it's porn related it won't work either)
     
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  19. mickmel

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    #19
    From the top down, the primary flow through a directory is to the various categories and then to the individual sites. The home page can pass links directly to the primary categories, who then pass it to the subcategories, who THEN pass it to the sites.

    Granted, you're losing PR by not having much juice come out of the subdirectories back to their parents and to the home page.

    The other thing I think you might be confused by is this. Say you have a PR6 page:

    - With no outgoing links, it's a PR6
    - With 10 outgoing links, it's still a PR6
    - With 100 outgoing links, it's still a PR6
    - With 1000 outgoing links, it's still a PR6

    Outgoing links don't take PR from a page -- they simply distribute the outgoing PR of that page. It generally hurts in the long run because that PR would eventually make it back to that page and now it doesn't (home --> category --> file --> home, for example). However, the PR of a page is not affected at all by the number of links on it.
     
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  20. sunny210

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    #20
    Great explanation.
    I also agree.
     
    sunny210, Mar 1, 2008 IP