Some observations I made from linking to an external (high quality) page. 1) When I added 2-3 links to a high quality site, my page moved up on SERPs. 2) When I added more links to the same site, the page moved down on SERPs. 3) When I made most of those links "nofolow", nothing happened. I assume that google thinks that I want to spam/promote in favor of that external page, even after I used the nofollow. My next step will be to remove most of the external links and see if the page moves up again, close to status of step #1. BTW, in the meantime the page went from PR0 to PR1. Any comments/help on this?
What help you need ? You are experimenting and its going as it should be SIMPLE : If you have good quality links it will help, if you do over link building it will not help But it would be nice to know your URL and then comment