Comments on: Outbound links on your website http://xebidy.com/2008/06/outbound-links-on-your-website/ Web 2.0 eCommerce Strategy Design and Implementation Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:05:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Andrew http://xebidy.com/2008/06/outbound-links-on-your-website/#comment-5069 Andrew Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:09:08 +0000 http://xebidy.com/?p=163#comment-5069 The debate around 'PR leak from outbound links' has been going on for some time. If interested do a search with keywords like - outbound links pr leak - or - outbound links google. However I'm sure that there will be just as many theories, indepth testing, discussions and differing conclusions as with all other aspects of SEO. To keep it safe in terms of SEO I would limit outbound links per page to between 10-20, accompany each link with descriptive text and not use the exact same keyword are you are trying to get ranked for as the link text. On the other hand, in terms of the user - do what will work best for them - sticking to common usability practices - a natural linking structure will emerge. Most of the time the SEO and usability aspects are mutually inclusive e.g. in the case of having heaps of outbound link for a page - it would be better for both to categories these and spread them over a number of smaller pages. Cheers. The debate around ‘PR leak from outbound links’ has been going on for some time.

If interested do a search with keywords like - outbound links pr leak - or - outbound links google.

However I’m sure that there will be just as many theories, indepth testing, discussions and differing conclusions as with all other aspects of SEO.

To keep it safe in terms of SEO I would limit outbound links per page to between 10-20, accompany each link with descriptive text and not use the exact same keyword are you are trying to get ranked for as the link text.

On the other hand, in terms of the user - do what will work best for them - sticking to common usability practices - a natural linking structure will emerge.

Most of the time the SEO and usability aspects are mutually inclusive e.g. in the case of having heaps of outbound link for a page - it would be better for both to categories these and spread them over a number of smaller pages.

Cheers.

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