No OBLs, problem or not?

[glengara]

I'm working with a new site that's targeting a novel niche and I can't find any relevant outside resources to link to as there really aren't any.

Thing is, I'm a bit nervous about not having any outgoing links, should I be?

[jakegotmail]

not really. worry about 10k other things before you worry about this. ie IBL and content.

[glengara]

The content/IBLs are sorted IMO, but I'm a bit nervous about having no OBLs...

[jimbeetle]

I don't know if you should be "nervous" by not having any outbounds, though I do think it helps.

There's absolutely nothing on the net for this niche, at least that quality enough to throw a link at? Wikis, boards, etc.?

Maybe you'll just have to start a few other related sites just to link to ;-)

[glengara]

That's part of the dilemma JB, if I were to try to include any OBLs it would be solely to try to appease the G, and we're forever being told to link as if the SEs didn't exist ;-)

[WiseWebDude]

Well, if you really want to appease Google, just add a link to Google as that would be safe :)

Heck, just add one of their search boxes (which has outbound link to Google, of course) and all is solved, plus your users can search your site AND you make a pittance from them as well!

:)-

[jimbeetle]

we're forever being told to link as if the SEs didn't exist

And then, of course, you wind up with the possibility of a site being considered a dead end.

I'll make the assumption that the sites from which your IBLs are coming from are not ones to which the new site should link to. If there's nothing to link to, I guess there's nothing to link to until something else comes along in this very novel niche.

Barring anything else you might have to depend for awhile on internal supporting pages. I'm a big believer in splitting related content into different category directories and inter-linking lower level pages. This at least gets some extra link text juice.

[glengara]

*..a site being considered a dead end.*

That's the factor I'm a bit concerned with, site will have plenty of IBLs ( I reckon) but no OBLs :-(

[jimbeetle]

You can always link to that on-topic wikipedia article that you have in the works. Or that one certain blog that has a couple of entries in that niche. Or maybe write an article and offer it to a somewhat related site just to link to, don't ask for a link back.