linking to authority sites, does it help?

linking to authority sites

[AffiliateDreamer]

I think i've read or noticed on some sites that they point to 'authority' sites on any given topic/keyword.

Does this help or is it just helping the bigger site get bigger?

[niz85]

I would also love to see the answer.

Niz

[ogletree]

Both

[ganderla]

I just posted this:

Outbound links:
I have a particular page that I have been doing extensive testing on in regards to outbound links.

First, I had no outbound links from this page.

Then, I added a link to the number 2 result in the serps using the URL as the anchor text. Not even in the top 100.

Then I changed the anchor text to the keyword that I was trying to do the testing on. Which happens to be the title of my page and the title of the page I was linking to. A couple of weeks went by and then I was number 10 out of over 2 million.

Now I added a link to the number one result with the keyword as the anchor text, which is also the title of the page I am linking to.

So, I expect that in a few weeks I should move up to between 3 and 5.

I will post again to let everyone know how it goes.

Over here:

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