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When I first started giving out my weekly Link Love in my Links Round Up in my home business blog some 4 months ago, the thought that excessive outbound links would be bad for SEO specifically page rank bleeding, never crossed my mind. I did it in the spirit of sharing with my readers and my subscribers some interesting posts I’ve read in the blogosphere for their benefit.

Dofollow or Nofollow

Well I have to say during the last 4 months, this topic of whether dofollow or nofollow your blog or comments has been highly debated umpteen times by many bloggers. At the end of the day, there is no right or wrong decision to this, it’s a personal choice that each of us has to make.

Do Outbound Links Kill My Google Ranking?

Everyone likes to have more incoming links. The more the better for your page rank, your SERP. But what about outbound links on your page.  How do they affect your link building efforts especially improving your page rank? Is too much linking out bad for SEO particularly to the page you put these outbound links? Well playing the devil’s advocate, even if there is some truth, I think it’s probably insignificant to deplete your page ranking and we should continue to do this as it provides more information to the readers.

Here’s what others have said…

DOFOLLOW- What happens is you kill your Page Rank. Link juice on a page is like a 9 volt battery that last long time if you you have a small LED light attached to it. However it will DRAIN DEAD if you use it to power something bigger like a car head light…..Internal PageRank contributes to the overall site PageRank health, DOFOLLOW is like cancer deep inside your belly – Garry Conn, garryconn.com

No Outbound Links- One reason people blog is to generate inbound links to their website. It’s a great benefit of blogging. However, in the pursuit of backlinks, don’t forget to link out to others. Forget about this notion of withholding your link juice. That’s silly. You have to be willing to link out to others. It shows your readers that you are providing them with well-rounded information, and it captures the attention of the bloggers you link out to. By making them aware of your blog, they’ll be more willing to return the favor by linking to you or even letting you guest post on their blog – Gerald Weber, http://sem-group.net

My 5 Outbound Links Gave Me 500 Incoming Links

My most recent Link Love-Links Round Up N0.16 listed like in all other link love posts, 5 posts I read for the week and shared with readers. However when I last checked, this post generated 501 incoming links. It’s a pleasant surprise and it just shows that the spirit of sharing good information with my readers or my subscribers does somehow find a way to repay back my link love.

The Three outbound links that surprised me were:

    Garry Conn’s Playing Online Games Can Be Dangerous for IE Users
    (363 incoming links received- post has 10 comments, Alexa 83K; blog PR4:45K Yahoo inlinks)
    Grizzly’s Niche Support
    (9 incoming links received- post has 88 comments; Alexa 85K; blog PR3:8K Yahoo inlinks)
    Courtney Tuttle’sout How Many Links Does It Takes To Get #1 In Google
    (26 incoming links received- post has 43 comments; Alexa 152K; blog PR0:3K Yahoo inlinks)
    ** The rest of the 100 incoming links resulted from my own domain**

    Case Study Conclusion

    While this study is not conclusive given that there may be some other factors which may have contributed to this, it suffices to say that the good result was achieved by linking to Gary Conn’s blog post as the blog, garryconn.com has the highest page rank, traffic, and an incredible amount of incoming links it has accumulated. Although for practical reasons we may not always be consciously looking for these attributes when you link out, nevertheless, it just proves that linking out to quality sites is extremely important for link building and it’s something to keep in mind.

    Given that this case study on outbound links and incoming links has also revealed what a quality blog Garry Conn has from an unbiased review, you may want to head over to his blog to see what else this man has to offer you. If you are into blog monetization especially adsense or generally make money blogging, this is the blog you would want to go to.

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