Outgoing Links: New Approach?

Has anyone seen/used/experienced/researched this approach?

[gcross]

I am developing a new website which will be fairly content rich on a health related topic. I am planning on limiting my outgoing links to a few (less than two dozen) websites of high quality that I patronize personally, (not mine). These websites will not be relevant to this website's topic; they will only by websites of high value that I feel to be worthy of patronage.

I'm thinking of limiting them to an external JS or dynamic file that will rotate these each time a page is loaded or refreshed, so as to mention only one per page. A complete list would appear on a singular links page.

I'm thinking of one of two options. Option One will result in mention only on the links page and one link only on any internal site page. Option Two will result in mention only wherever these links appear.

To elucidate, when I say mention only, here is an example:

example dot org is a wonderful organization that manages the lending of small business loans to businessmen, women and entrepreneurs in third world countries by lenders in first world countries. Lending is managed by a third party organization on site. Feedback is comprehensive, including ...

This is as opposed to the current practice of:

< a href = " example.org " > example dot org < / a > is a wonderful organization that ...

The point of this exercise is to promote an external site without using an outgoing link that may result in PR penalization. By showing the URL it is a simple matter for the viewer to just type the URL into the address bar of their browser.

Obviously this may impact the external website's PR negatively. So the question becomes is this an "acceptable" approach? Is this going to earn me raspberries from other legitimate webmasters and/or websites? Is google going to give me grief for this practice? I kind of favor option one over option two. Opinions, please...

[Please forgive me if this has already been addressed. I'm still reading all the previous posts re outgoing links and PR and google penalizations but it may take me a few days.]

[edited by: phranque at 1:43 pm (utc) on Jan. 26, 2008]
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[jimbeetle]

Well, the topic of masking links to hoard PR is one that has been ongoing since Google hit the bigtime. I'm afraid you aren't going to get any definitive answers to that one.

But, this strikes me:

These websites will not be relevant to this website's topic

If you are going to have any outgoing links at all they should be relevant to your site's topic. And the links should be visible to the SEs so they can see that your site is relevant to the external sites' topic.

[Marcia]

I am planning on limiting my outgoing links to a few (less than two dozen) websites of high quality that I patronize personally, (not mine). These websites will not be relevant to this website's topic; they will only by websites of high value that I feel to be worthy of patronage.

Worthy of patronage doesn't necessarily mean they'll be of any interest to visitors and regardless, as in the example, an off-topic outbound link to a financial site on a health site looks like an advertisement, paid or otherwise. A personal endorsement doesn't change that, and would not convince a third party otherwise.

A better idea would be to separate your own personal buying preferences from the site you referenced, and put your recommendations on a separate personal site, blog, or whatever.