| Effectiveness of outbound links
Are outbound links an effective SEO technique? |
seowizz
msg:3841523 | 9:02 pm on Feb 3, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I have implemented a test on my site <snip> to analyse the effectiveness of anchored outbound links and to see the effects on ranking. I really wanted to find out what the general opinion was on outbound link effectiveness? [edited by: Webwork at 12:06 am (utc) on Feb. 4, 2009]
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Shaddows
msg:3841942 | 10:31 am on Feb 4, 2009 (gmt 0) |
If you go crazy, it can be detrimental, and in the long run you are causing yourself a lot of work in monitoring link rot. That said, well crafted anchor text, linking to a page that is relavent to the text and to the host page definately works, at least for internal links. I have been annoyed by the unexpected promotion of PageA over PageB when I put in an inline link from A to B, which intuitively should have made PageB stronger. I imagine it will have a similar boost on external links, but it's a bit noisy to detect (if it wasn't a link, its still a keyword incidence)
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seowizz
msg:3841952 | 10:40 am on Feb 4, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Of course link rot. I guess any external links you plant will have to be organised in order to keep monitoring effectiveness.
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