Outgoing Links

What kind of relevance in rankings

[CWebguy]

Just wondering what is your take on outgoing links and their relevance in search rankings. We always hear about incoming links (probably because a much higher relevance), but what kind of impact do you see outgoing links having on our site's? Thanks!

[edited by: CWebguy at 4:26 pm (utc) on Sep. 7, 2007]

[dickbaker]

My opinion is that it depends upon what site you're linking to. If your site has to do with homes, and you link to the Federal Housing Administration, that seems logical. A link to a Viagra site doesn't.

I have a site that ranks very well. It has a lot of one-way outbound links to sites that I think my visitors would find useful. I also have a lot of reciprocal links with sites that visitors would find useful.

If the folks at Google, MSN or Yahoo don't think that providing such links is a benefit, then I'm Bugs Bunny.

[CWebguy]

Thanks for the advice Dick!