Out-Bound Links

Do they lower pagerank?

[mud]

Hello, I have heard that out-bound links lower the pagerank of a site. (Links to other sites) Is this true? And if it is, if you made a script that like: www.yourdomain.com/outbound.php?sitename

where site name is the site you are sending the hit to, would this help?

[JamesR]

Nope, it does not lower the page rank of your site. However, you do control how much page rank you give to other sites by how many links you put on a page. Any algorithm that penalized a site for linking out to other legitimate, good resources would be a terrible algorithm.