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Open Questions #4 - Diminishing Values On Outbound Links

Posted By Eli On July 29, 2008 @ 4:12 pm In General Articles | 637 Comments

I somehow missed this question from the Open Questions post and I can’t help but answer it.

From [1] Adsenser

I loved your SEO empire post.
But I was wondering how much effect does a lot of links from a lot of indexed pages from the same domain have?
I always thought that the search engines looked mainly at the number of different domain linking to you.
Can you give some more info on this?
Or do you use these pages to link to a lot of different domains?

This is a fantastic opener for a conversation on sitewide outbound links affects on other sites as well as the site itself. Which has been long debated but never cleared up, not because its too complicated just because theres so many myths its hard to work the fact from the fiction. To be clear in my answer I’m going to refer to the site giving the link as the “host site” and the site receiving the link as the “target site.” Just so I don’t have to play around with too much terminology.

The entire explanation of why sitewide links, main page links, subpage links, and reciprocal links work is based off a simple SEO law called Diminishing Values. It basically states that for every link whether it be recipricol, innerlink, or outbound link there is some form of consequence. Also, for every inbound link, innerlink accepted or reciprocal link there is a benefit.

SEO Law of Diminishing Values
Diminishing Values = sum(benefits) > sum(consequences)

The need for the sum of the benefits to be greater than the sum of the consequences is essential because, as mentioned in my SEO Empire post there can’t be a negative relevancy for a site in relationship to a term. For example lets take the niche of cars. There’s a theoretical mass of car blogs. For the sake of the example we’ll say there are several thousand blogs on the subject of cars. Something in the industry happens that stirs all the bloggers such as SEMA having a car show or something. So all these car blogs blog about SEMA’s new car show coming out and give it a link. If these outbound links caused a consequence greater or equal to the valued benefit given to SEMA than all these blogs would drop in value as per the topic, cars. Thus the mass affect would be that of a negative relevancy, therefore sites with no relevancy but contain topic links would by all theory rank higher than the general census of on topic sites.

So the notion of an outbound link diminishing your sites value in equal proportion is just complete bubkiss and obviously not the way things actually work. Even if it was true and there was a compensation for on site SEO when an event in a niche happens the site hosting the event wouldn’t just rise in the rankings it would propel everyone else downwards causing more turbulence in the SERPS than what happens in actuality with just their site rising. It’s just simple SEO Theory 101, but sadly a lot of people believe it. There’s also a lot of sites that absolutely won’t link to any sites within their topic in fear that their rankings will suddenly plummet the moment they do. They’re under the greedy impression that they’re somehow hording their link value and that is in some way benefiting them. So with the assumption that an outbound link gives much more value to its target than it diminishes from its host everything in a sense balances out and outbound links become much less scary. This of course in no way says that the consequence to the host is a diminishment of any sort. It’s entire consequence could be 0 or as a lot of other people believe +X (some people think on topic outbound links actually adds to your sites relevancy). I haven’t personally seen one of my sites go up in rank after adding an outbound link but I’m open to the idea or to the future of the concept being reality.

I Practice What I Preach
The Law of Diminishing Values is one of the reasons why BlueHatSEO is one of the only SEO blogs that has all dofollow comments as well as top commentators plugin on every page. Your comments will not hurt my rankings..I’ll say that one more time Your comments will not hurt my rankings. Whewww I feel better :)

Back To The Question
Before we get into the meat of the question we’ll take a small scale example that we should all know the answer to.
Q: If a host site writes an automated link exchange script that automatically does thousands of link exchanges and puts those links on a single subpage and all the target sites also have their link exchange page setup the same way on a subpage. Will the host site gain in value?

A: I’ll tell you straight up from personal experience. Yes it does. It’s simple to test if you don’t believe me go for it yourself

Now we’ll move up to a much larger scale with a specific on topic example using sitewide links.
Q: If you own two 100k+ page lyric sites with lots of inbound links and very good indexing ratios, will putting a sitewide link to the other site on both raise both in value or keep them both the same?

A: Also from my personal experience, yes both will not only raise in value but they will skyrocket in value by in the upwards of 50% which can result in much higher rankings. Likewise this example can be done with any niche and any two large sites. Cross promote them with sitewide links between the two and see what happens. The results shouldn’t be surprising.

Now, on the large scale to the meat of the question.
Q: If these two lyrics site cross compared all their inbound links from other sites and managed to get all the sites that link to lyric site A to also link to lyric site B to the point at which each increased in links by 100k (same as the number of increased links would of been with a sitewide link between the two) would both sites increase in value more-so than if they did the sitewide link instead?

A: Yes absolutely. This is a bit harder to test, but if you’ve been building an SEO Empire and each site’s inbound links are from your own sites than it becomes quite a bit easier to test and I’m certain you’ll find the results the same as I did.

Conclusion
On a 1:1 ratio on a generalized population of relevant links vs non-relevant inbound links from separate domains/sites are still more effective than a sidewide link of the same magnitude. However! A sitewide link does benefit both sites to a very high degree. Just not to the degree that lots of other sites can accomplish.

Sorry that question took so long to answer. I didn’t just want to give you a blank and blunt answer. I wanted to actually answer it with logic and a reasoning that hopefully leads to an understanding of the ever so important WHY.


637 Comments To "Open Questions #4 - Diminishing Values On Outbound Links"

#1 Comment By Baldizzle On July 29, 2008 @ 5:41 pm

I couldn’t even believe my reader. You just blew my mind twice in one day. Thanks Eli.

#2 Comment By Metaspring On July 29, 2008 @ 10:14 pm

You’re back! And what an excellent post. I see that you practice what you preach by having dofollow comments as well as top commentators plugin on every page to demonstrate the fact that “Your comments will not hurt my rankings”

#3 Comment By Fifty Studio On July 29, 2008 @ 10:37 pm

That had to be one of the few useful posts on SEO I’ve read. I’m tired of crappy seo blogs that regurgitate garbage. Very good post.

#4 Comment By MMS Facts On July 29, 2008 @ 10:49 pm

Thanks Eli and good to see you’re back. This is some solid SEO information that many just don’t think about, but when you read it it comes all to clear.

#5 Comment By Free MP3 Seach On July 29, 2008 @ 11:01 pm

So after all this BS from Google, automatic link exchanges still have value after all. IF you think about it many software directories give out thousands of links and they never lose PR either so I have ot agree with your theory and keep up the good work Eli.

#6 Comment By Eli On July 30, 2008 @ 12:14 am

Thanks guys and freemp3search had a great example i wish i would of thought of with link directories and software directories.

I know I haven’t posted in awhile so in case you missed it in your rss reader there were actually two posts today. The other is located here:
[2] https://www.bluehatseo.com/blue-hat-technique-20-cyclic-documents/

#7 Comment By FreeDIYSEO On July 30, 2008 @ 1:25 am

I’ve often wondered about the site-wide links issue. It always seemed to me a bit simplistic to say ’sitewide links are bad’.

I’d be interested to know your thoughts on the impact sitewide links would have on the other outbound links from the host site - would it decrease their value massively?

#8 Comment By Kevin On July 30, 2008 @ 8:46 am

Great post Eli. Regarding the automated link exchange, here’s an example of a competitor of mine that offers link exchange and is doing pretty well in the SE’s: [3] hxxp://xxx.taxhelpattorney.com .

Now the confusing part. An example of no outbound links that’s an authority site: wikipedia.

Great results, polar opposites, I need to look at this again. Anyone, any insights drop me a line at my blog, thanks.

#9 Comment By SEO Shadow On July 30, 2008 @ 8:52 am

Really nicely explained, man. You do a good job of rubbishing the misinformation out there.

#10 Comment By Garrett On July 30, 2008 @ 10:22 am

@kevin
Your competitor also appears to be running an affiliate program which is a nice way to collect on-topic inbounds (assuming the aff program uses clean links and doesn’t redirect thru a middleman like CJ). A side benefit of the affiliate program is that he can also explain away some potentially nefarious linking activity by blaming it on “rogue affiliates” (assuming he ever gets called out). ;)

#11 Comment By Internet Marketing on the Central Coast On July 30, 2008 @ 12:46 pm

Very nicely thought out and presented post Eli. I dig people that post on results they’ve tested and not just regurgitating what they’ve read. Great job.

S

#12 Comment By Garrett On July 30, 2008 @ 1:42 pm

@ Garrett

You are right. I have the same problem (challenge :P ) as him; almost all the competition in the niche iam in uses affiliate marketing. Because of all those links they rank higher. Its weird google doesn’t recognize affiliate links, but I’ll try being my own affiliate with all the tips from Eli :P

#13 Comment By nodatetonight.com On July 30, 2008 @ 2:38 pm

long time no see post. another good one to date.

[4] http://www.nodatetonight.com

#14 Comment By Step-by-Step Internet Marketing Guides On July 30, 2008 @ 7:06 pm

WOW, it is so nice to hear an expert say that do-follow comments DO NOT affect your rankings, there are so much misinformed and completely moronic notions flying around on this subject, and I always laugh when I hear them from those that don’t have a clue.

Everything you said makes a lot of sense, thanks!

Thanks,
JR

#15 Comment By Beerhat On July 30, 2008 @ 7:31 pm

SEO as in everyday life is completely full of misconceptions, myths, and bullshit.

It’s nice to read a post from bluehat again!

#16 Comment By WKMI On July 30, 2008 @ 7:59 pm

Just subscribed to your feed.Thank you.It’s tough as a business owner trying to determine who has the right info.

Thanks.

#17 Comment By Arnie On July 30, 2008 @ 9:13 pm

Great post. Our blog is all DoFollow all the time too.

#18 Comment By Wordpress SEO On July 31, 2008 @ 12:26 am

Awesome post. I’ve always heard that sitewide links (especially reciprical ones) are cancelled out by Google’s oversized brain.

Thanks for clearing that up.

-Brad

#19 Comment By vasea On July 31, 2008 @ 12:56 am

Good post - Thx, you just gave me an answer to an old question

#20 Comment By Thibaut On July 31, 2008 @ 4:47 am

Great post, Eli like usually and happy to hear from you. We are still desperately waiting for SEO Empire part 2. Can’t wait anymore ;-)

#21 Comment By Kevin On July 31, 2008 @ 11:20 am

@Garrett

Thanks for checking that out and good point on the affiliate, I must do this soon. Thanks.

#22 Comment By TheMadHat On July 31, 2008 @ 11:51 am

Great explanation of a topic many people have problems with. The only caveat I would add is to be aware there are other factors involved and overuse of any one method could cause you problems.

#23 Comment By SEOMichael On July 31, 2008 @ 12:12 pm

Good post, I just subscribed to your feed. I am not sure if I have bad information, but I am totally avoiding site-wide inbound or outbound links on all my sites now.

#24 Comment By Brandon Adcock On July 31, 2008 @ 12:13 pm

glad to see you active again

#25 Comment By Kasami On July 31, 2008 @ 12:20 pm

Awmagad, not one, but two new posts. My feedreader is tuned to scream to me when you post, and finally it did!

Great quality as allways. Looking forward to SEO Empire part 2. What am I going to do with those million indexed pages? ;)

#26 Comment By debra mastaler On July 31, 2008 @ 12:47 pm

Good post Eli. :)

We’ve also had good luck using sitewide links on properties we’re cross promoting, we try and blend the links into the content so they’re not overt if a competitor comes sniffing with a spam report but basically, dropping sw links is what we’re doing.

Wondered how you’re finding this tactic work on properties you don’t own. I’m hesitant to use a site that’s hosted them in the past, feel the footprints they leave are telling and devalue their potential.

Have you found this to be the case and if so, how do you evaluate a site you don’t own as a possible spot to host sw links?

#27 Comment By Joe On July 31, 2008 @ 7:38 pm

I subscribed to your RSS feed a while ago and I’ve been reading through your posts. I just wanted to say thanks because I’m learning a lot from you. I still have quite a few posts to read through yet but so far, great stuff!
Joe - Peace and Serenity through Prosperity

#28 Comment By police cars for sale On August 1, 2008 @ 2:03 am

Very interesting points you made there. I just wish other blogs would enable ‘dofollow”…

#29 Comment By Parrot Bluetooth On August 1, 2008 @ 2:59 am

Really fantastic opener indeed! Outbound links can really affect your site negatively at times like mentioned above in the post! Excellent stuff really. I am bookmarking this page: [5] http://delicious.com/britneyvaughan

#30 Comment By Asset Allocation On August 1, 2008 @ 4:00 am

Eli,
After starting to read your blog I went ahead and created a contend/scraper and rewriter. This bot is constantly generating completely unique human readable articles(about 95% pass the human quality control test). It is generating articles at a rate of about 4000 per day.

I also build an easily site creation tool. Simply select articles I wish to include, select a template and press create. It automatically creates the site on my domain of choice.

THe problem is I dont have the time to keep up with the bot. It is generating more articles than I can select and create sites with. SO the question:
1. Continue selecting articles about certain niches and creating sites with them when I get the time.
2. PUt the entire program on autopilot. Let it automatically randomly select 10000 articles for a site and build it. This would create sites that are not about any certain niche but be capable of mass site creation.

Which do you think is better??
Now I need to build an upward linking script!!

#31 Comment By Andy Roberts On August 1, 2008 @ 10:02 am

This post confirms what I’ve suspected. Refusing to link outwards isn’t doing the retentives any good.

#32 Comment By Seneschall On August 1, 2008 @ 12:29 pm

Great to see you posing again and I’m really happy to finally get some trustworthy confirmation on what I thought but never was sure of.

#33 Comment By yard flags On August 1, 2008 @ 1:54 pm

Great information, Thank You for sharing……….

#34 Comment By Miguel Salcido On August 1, 2008 @ 4:49 pm

OK, so what you are saying is that putting (selling) outbound sitewide links on your site will not diminish its value. AND that receiving sitewide links will also not diminish your site’s value.

That seems to be counterintuitive to what I belive. I have been of the mindset to stay away from sitewide links because they tend to get you penalized more easily. Now I know for a fact (from experience at an old employer) that too many inbound links at the same time from a sitewide can and will penalize you.

I would love to hear more from you on this and swap stories!

#35 Comment By Atlantic City Deals Guy On August 1, 2008 @ 6:13 pm

Eli, this is great news, everything I was reading said the opposite of your post! Thanks for keeping us properly informed!

JJ
Atlantic City, NJ

#36 Comment By Eli On August 1, 2008 @ 6:38 pm

Actually I never said there is no value drop for giving a sitewide link. I just said it wasn’t as much of a drop as the value that it gives. There is a consequence for placing a sitewide link. Although that consequence could be large to none at all. It’s just never greater than the benefit the other sites recieves. Also following the rule that no inbound link can hurt you no sitewide link can hurt you. There used to be a sandbox but that wasn’t necessarily a penalty for too many links, it was just a time buffer to test your site’s quality out. There is definitely no penalty that I’ve ever seen from too many links at once to a quality site.

To list an extreme example. I just recently this year got a sitewide link on collegehumor (2m+ links within two weeks) to a brand new site and it was a huge benefit. Never a penalty.

#37 Comment By 511 pants On August 2, 2008 @ 5:12 am

Thanks for the useful information

#38 Comment By dog On August 2, 2008 @ 6:47 am

i’m interested it

#39 Comment By unlocked iphones On August 2, 2008 @ 10:17 am

that guy also has a kick ass domain. I mean taxhelpattorney.com, trust me it doesnt even get better than that.

#40 Comment By Rosenstand On August 2, 2008 @ 2:57 pm

Thanks man! Some times I can’t help wondering if the vast majority of SEO people have gone completely mad regarding “slipping out link juice” etc. etc. This is the internet! The very way it works speaks for the truth in your posting!

#41 Comment By Webkinz On August 2, 2008 @ 6:19 pm

Great to see new posts on here Eli. And I still love looking back at the older info here too.

#42 Comment By search engine optimisation On August 3, 2008 @ 5:09 am

Excellent point if no one ever linked to anyone else then where would we be … Hey maybe lets do that and see how Google reacts remove all links from all sites

#43 Comment By Erum On August 3, 2008 @ 7:56 am

We really should start a campaign to get Wordpress to be Do-Follow by default. So many people start blogging without even knowing that they are a no-follow blog. I mean this should be a choice and not on by default.

I have not only added the Do-Follow plugin but also Keyword Luv and Comment Luv. My commentators should love me off lol.

#44 Comment By SEO ibiza On August 3, 2008 @ 2:24 pm

hola Amigo. will echo the sentiments, nice to see you back again, especially as a recent winner of our best seo blog awards..

coincidentally we run dofollow on both blogs and recent comments from all pages also.

one question tho, what exactly does “loving you off” mean? not sure were up for that ;)

[6] kev@seoibiza

#45 Comment By DirectToIndia On August 4, 2008 @ 2:42 am

Ahaa, This is cool post, It has cleared bit of my doubts regarding outbound links. Thanks for Share.

#46 Comment By Gainesville Florida Realty On August 4, 2008 @ 11:27 am

Thank’s for sharing a very good post. This is highly informative.

#47 Comment By brazz On August 4, 2008 @ 2:08 pm

You mentioned cross linking sites with 100k pages. I assume these are sites created by scripts.

I run a few hand written sites, which are well regarded by Google (all at page one). The sites have between 200-300 pages.

Do you think it would benefit me if I placed sitewide links at these sites pointing to another site that I want to promote?

Two points here: first, 100k anchor texts can have an effect much larger than 300 pages; second, you can risk loosing an auto generated site, but you can’t do the same with a 300 page site.

Thanks,

#48 Comment By D. Maskull On August 4, 2008 @ 6:27 pm

I am happy to see you posting again. Why is it that I have ALWAYS heard the contrary to what you just explained - even from supposed SEOs (of all types)?

#49 Comment By Nitro Quattro On August 4, 2008 @ 8:38 pm

Awesome eye-popping post. I’ve been diving deeper into SEO and your blog provides some great info - very much appreciated.

#50 Comment By Bleuken On August 5, 2008 @ 12:13 am

Woow, the post was something! At first I can understand your point so I need to read it twice. I just want to inform you that I print a hard copy of this topic so I can read and understand it carefully. Thanks!

#51 Comment By WebSam Design On August 5, 2008 @ 8:17 am

Excellent next question, let’s try it in real life and web ;-)

#52 Comment By net-work On August 5, 2008 @ 11:59 am

Hey Eli … thanks for the post, I’ve been in the game for years and was under the “law of diminishing values” misconception you were referring to.

Since we’re talking about the value of site wide links, I’ve got a quick question I’ve always wondered about and never had the chance to test as there are a ton of variables (no control) when dealing with site wide links.

Would site wide links be considered site wide links if the link and anchor text change on every page?

For example, say you have 2 db driven sites, 1 centered around doctors from every state and city in USA. Another site sells cars and also has a page for every state/city in US. Thanks to a little php, you can strip the city/st from the url and rewrite the url & anchor text for each link so no 2 links are identical.

Is this beneficial? Do search engines still recognize this as a site wide link since they are all going to the same domain? Is this better at preventing spammy anchor text than just randomizing the words?

#53 Comment By rent back On August 5, 2008 @ 3:51 pm

that is another very informative article.
i have two sites in the same niche and was afraid to sitewide them to each other. i think i will give it a try after reading this.

#54 Comment By rent back On August 5, 2008 @ 3:56 pm

sorry i meant 4 sites within the same niche.

#55 Comment By Referencement On August 5, 2008 @ 6:01 pm

I have 2 or 3 questions on site wide links

1. Is it wise to put like 5 sitewide links pointing to 5 important internal pages of another site or would it be better and more profitable to put links to 5 different domains?

2.Is it wise to have multiple anchor texts on these links? (As asked by net-work )

#56 Comment By Learn About Plants On August 6, 2008 @ 9:47 am

Good post - this is a concept that I’ve always wondered about, yet unfortunately never really experimented with.

The Law of Diminishing Values makes perfect sense though, and I like the example with car blogs.

#57 Comment By Shlomo Artzi On August 6, 2008 @ 8:18 pm

Very good article, cleared up some misconceptions for me. It’s good to know healthy linking won’t hurt you.

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שלמה ארצי

#58 Comment By Compatibility Horoscope On August 7, 2008 @ 6:10 am

Thanks Eli, great post as always. Your blog is by far the most useful information resource there is. Thanks again.

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#59 Comment By Andy On August 7, 2008 @ 1:47 pm

Tnx for this cool post!

#60 Comment By Geeks DIY On August 9, 2008 @ 7:26 pm

Glad to see you’re pack posting Eli!

I’m curious about if you have multiple sites that are being hosted on the same server, but on different domains. For instance, with your lyrics site, would those links count for much if the SE knows that both sites are on the same server, and even if they have the same WHOIS data?

Another question for the lyric site example. Aren’t reciprocal links worth very little now? So would you see much effect from that?

Thanks, and good to see some new posts!

#61 Comment By North Georgia Website Design On August 10, 2008 @ 5:06 am

This is a very enlightening post. It got me thinking, and maybe you already answered it in the post but I couldn’t get it in these terms - but what about targeted linking from non-relevant sites?

For Example:
Site A is a software directory and Site B is a lyric directory. Site A and Site B each have 100k+ subpages. If Site A had 1k+ pages of “lyric software” subpages and Site B had no subpages related to software, then would the total effect of inbound links to Site B from Site A be greater than Site B’s links to Site A?

#62 Comment By Free 3G iPhone On August 12, 2008 @ 3:04 am

Nice post, well presented and i understood it. Thanks

#63 Comment By super affiliate nl On August 14, 2008 @ 9:01 am

Thanks for answering my question!

Your definitely the best SEO blog I know.
You really inspire me to do more SEO instead of doing only ppc.

#64 Comment By Douglas Kwong On August 15, 2008 @ 12:41 pm

Great post with a lot of good information in it. I like that you included in the Q and A portion that you answered with personal experiences involved. It reiterates some thoughts with outbound linking.

#65 Comment By Metaspring On August 17, 2008 @ 12:12 am

great post i really like that…

#66 Comment By Craig On August 18, 2008 @ 5:08 pm

I am in the camp that both internal and external links are vital to increasing placements and part of that is the ability for search engine to decipher true links from manufactured links. Its just to what level does Google go to determine that line. As an seo services company, we always get asked to what the future is in SEO. In my mind, it is Latent Semantic Indexing and how sites will need to embrace these notions when constructing their category taxonomies. What an interesting space!

#67 Comment By faculty jobs On August 21, 2008 @ 11:33 am

Very Informative. I am trusting you on the dofollow doesn’t hurt. I have read the opposite from some “experts” recently. Going to bookmark your site, its tough to determine the truth from someone just chasing traffic and spewing out what they have heard.

#68 Comment By A dust collecting fool On August 21, 2008 @ 1:24 pm

Building relevant links are keys to our success.

#69 Comment By Eli On August 21, 2008 @ 5:37 pm

I did not say that! Reread the article pls.

#70 Comment By Seo hosting On August 21, 2008 @ 10:35 pm

Thats a great article when you consider that some people are trying to sell their forum signatures for $XXXX on some sites.

#71 Comment By Jason On August 23, 2008 @ 9:33 am

Nice, thanks for speaking out about dofollow. It gets on my nerves how many sites are nofollow. Why? Its pretty much pointless.

#72 Comment By Metaspring On August 23, 2008 @ 9:41 pm

nice post i really like it…

#73 Comment By Metaspring On August 23, 2008 @ 9:43 pm

nice and easy source of income…

#74 Comment By Gabi Andrei On August 25, 2008 @ 1:02 pm

Link building is the hardest fight in SEO. It is hard to find good quality sites with same topic ready to link to you. But it is worthy.

#75 Comment By SEO Utah On August 26, 2008 @ 1:27 am

I’m glad you endorse tactics that naive SEOs stay away from for no legitimate reason. good post.

#76 Comment By Nimic @ The Green Routine On August 26, 2008 @ 10:30 am

I recently shut off my nofollow on comments to test this. It seems a lot of major SEO experts are starting to backtrack on the outbound links sucking link juice theory. Of course, since I’ve shut off no follow I’ve had to deal with a little bit more moderation. But, I’m hoping in the long run it helps more than it hurts.

I have a good feeling it will.

#77 Comment By Eva White On August 27, 2008 @ 5:28 am

Hi, Good to see some activity onthe site. Great post. Makes one think of all the links that one is chasing and wonder why they make it sound so complicated.

#78 Comment By Contempt On August 27, 2008 @ 5:47 am

Very great article. Slow on my comment, but still being used. Just grabbed the link and article for a friend to read. Keep it up, Eli.

#79 Comment By BlogPiG On August 28, 2008 @ 5:13 am

This is a really nice plugin, a bit like something I use already but with some nice extrea ideas, thanks.

#80 Comment By Atlanta SEO On September 1, 2008 @ 6:45 am

Really nice! two million links in two weeks! you never cease to amaze me

#81 Comment By Whizkid@Funniest YouTube Videos On September 3, 2008 @ 11:08 pm

I agree with you. It is rubbish to think that giving out links from one’s site will diminish their sites link value.

This is a great post as it really dispels the myth of link having lower value if they exchange in same niche.

#82 Comment By Web development On September 4, 2008 @ 6:56 am

Nice stuff. Thank you. Really important.

#83 Comment By Jason Online On September 4, 2008 @ 9:50 am

while i agree with most of your blog post, im not sure how effective linkpages are at the moment

#84 Comment By al On September 4, 2008 @ 7:26 pm

i am agree with of your blog post…

#85 Comment By al On September 4, 2008 @ 7:29 pm

this is a great post i really like that…

#86 Comment By al On September 4, 2008 @ 7:33 pm

nice extra ideas thanks…

#87 Comment By al On September 4, 2008 @ 7:34 pm

i agree with you…

#88 Comment By al On September 4, 2008 @ 7:34 pm

very great article…

#89 Comment By al On September 4, 2008 @ 7:35 pm

quick indexting tool…

#90 Comment By JustinB On September 6, 2008 @ 5:56 pm

guess its time to get those link exchanges going again

#91 Comment By Nathan On September 12, 2008 @ 3:16 am

someone else who agrees, it all builds up authority, passing links out to relevent sites, rather than just holding all link juice into your site

just out of interest, what affiliate companies offer proper links rather than redirected ones? preferably in the uk

#92 Comment By Ruby Web On September 17, 2008 @ 2:16 am

I totally agree. it’s all about having authority.

#93 Comment By chris pine On September 17, 2008 @ 12:09 pm

Good post and very complicated even though you’re trying to dumb it down for us. Seems like Google has a bunch of mathematicians working for them. I guess they can afford it but it just makes the whole algorithm seem like wizardry for us simple folk.

#94 Comment By Outsourcing On September 29, 2008 @ 1:01 am

I am in [8] outsourcing business and sometimes it goes difficult to convince a client about these things. You have explained all the subject in most suitable manner. Thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge with us.

#95 Comment By Web Design NC On September 29, 2008 @ 10:38 pm

This makes me feel alot better about outbound links. I don’t like being stingy with my juice.

#96 Comment By Web Design NC On September 29, 2008 @ 10:43 pm

Why don’t you say what you gotta say all at once Jackass.

#97 Comment By Property Listing Software On October 2, 2008 @ 2:24 am

Well, my tests gave similar results… Still outbound links to RE agencies websites help us a lot.

#98 Comment By kouji On October 3, 2008 @ 12:08 pm

wow. it’s good to see an seo post which actually has some evidence to back up a particular statement. cool.

#99 Comment By Work From Home Opportunities On October 7, 2008 @ 9:12 am

Great post! You explained this in much detail that even I could understand. I thought it was common knowledge that a pages PR would be passed through the links on the page, whether inbound or outbound. I didn’t realize that people thought the host could diminish in value due to those links.

Thanks for debunking this SEO myth for all of us.

Alan Mater

#100 Comment By Website Directories On October 8, 2008 @ 1:10 pm

This is some good stuff. Links are what build up the web and some would say that outbound links hurt your site. This is partly true. If you are a new site and link to an authority in your niche it will do you some good over just linking out to anyone.

#101 Comment By SEO On October 10, 2008 @ 3:50 pm

I was under the impression that site-wide links were now a bad factor in the big G’s eyes. Is this correct?

#102 Comment By Belleville Real Estate On October 15, 2008 @ 11:04 pm

Another great post, I learn more from this blog than all other blogs combined. I’m working through each post trying to filter and understand. Great stuff!

Here’s a questions what if you create an outbound post on for each post on a blog along with links out on each summary of a post showing in the archives, home page, etc. That would be multiple links on many pages. Is that going to impact you negatively, positively, or neutrally?

#103 Comment By Bottle Openers On October 18, 2008 @ 12:21 am

Hi Eli great post great to see a professional SEO expert say that dofollow comments won’t take away from your juice, hope you don’t find if I quote you and link to you on a couple so called SEO experts that say otherwise

#104 Comment By Webmaster Bookmarking On October 21, 2008 @ 2:12 am

If I’m working to get a smaller site initially indexed, I’ve noticed that some of the SEs favor the URLs that have outbound links to high PR pages. These get indexed first - but they don’t necessarily get higher PR or SERPs themselves.

Anyway, about dofollow, I run all my blogs and Pligg sites with nofollow disabled and I have no complaints about traffic or revenue… The key I’ve seen is just to not link to any penalized sites or ‘bad neighborhoods.’

#105 Comment By Bookmarking Demon On October 21, 2008 @ 7:44 am

Great post Eli. I’m going to follow your example and enable dofollow on my blogs now.

#106 Comment By Madly in love On October 22, 2008 @ 3:17 pm

Nice post. It’s good to see some real logic and sound thinking! :)

#107 Comment By Columbus SEO On October 23, 2008 @ 12:39 pm

Very interesting thinking, definitely a bit outside the box of accepted knowledge. I’ve always bought in to the net plus / net minus value of links on a site, based on something from Matt Cutts I got in the past. It would make sense though for relevant outbound links to provide value, after all… content is king. And worthwhile outbound links provide value to site visitors as valuable content. Thanks for the post.

#108 Comment By Roger Hamilton On October 28, 2008 @ 9:18 am

Just wondering, will you be posting anything similiar to this in the future? I would like to read a little bit more on this. Thanks for sharing the post though!

#109 Comment By Scott On October 29, 2008 @ 12:51 pm

So Eli, in your conclusion you stated:

“On a 1:1 ratio on a generalized population of relevant links vs non-relevant inbound links from separate domains/sites are still more effective than a sidewide link of the same magnitude.”

So then is there any difference between getting a relevant or non-relevant link to my site(s)? Such as the link that is now included here is from a ’seo’ site, yet it is going to my ‘plant’ site. I’m going on the “a link is a link is a link” theory that all links provide some effect, however, would this link be more effective if my site was about ’seo’?

#110 Comment By wordpress consulting On October 29, 2008 @ 9:25 pm

I’ve been shooting myself in the foot for a long time by not using sitewide links from one of my web properties to another. Thanks for helping me see the light.

#111 Comment By Charlotte SEO On October 30, 2008 @ 7:56 am

So true, nice to see people making blog posts that are actually correct, there is no such thing as dilution as long as the link is not to a bad neighborhood, a perfect example of this would be pr5 to pr8 directories that have thousands of outbound links.

#112 Comment By Internet Strategy India On November 3, 2008 @ 4:18 am

Thanks for clearing the matter up once and for all. I’ve read so many articles that keep stressing on the claim that having outbound links with dofollow tags will drain your Page Rank, viz a viz your importance to Google. The above example of online directories is a great example.

#113 Comment By netdrv On November 3, 2008 @ 1:18 pm

Thanks for your explanation. Great post, I’ll try it

#114 Comment By link building On November 9, 2008 @ 4:17 am

Thanks for the elaboration.I further understand the value of outbound links

#115 Comment By seo linker On November 11, 2008 @ 9:42 pm

The main reason why outbound links are less important is that it is easy to do and cheaper. You can just submit your site to most high-PR websites and you think you’re on? definitely there are still a lot of polishing and 20 outbound links were just comparable to 1 inbound link.

#116 Comment By free cell texts On November 16, 2008 @ 7:05 pm

Outbound links does make a post more useful, it also makes a boring post more interesting.

#117 Comment By Pollywog On November 23, 2008 @ 1:48 pm

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#118 Comment By flycvt.com On November 23, 2008 @ 3:50 pm

I think it’s a shame that Google has such a masive impact on sites traffic and the algo is so secret and dyamic that webmasters etc have to spend a lot of time doing stuff just to get higher rank. I’m not blaming them, they have to do it.

If sites were rewarded for being useful then the web would be better because all this energy could actually be spent on making sites more usable or useful or pretty or cool.

#119 Comment By How to Make Money Online On November 23, 2008 @ 7:43 pm

Eli,
Just found your blog. Great article. The do-follow has been addressed so many times before, incorrectly of course! So much so that I deactivated my do-follow plug-ins. Now I am going to go back and reactivate them.

I definitely need to take some time to go back and read some of your other posts. Seems you have a lot of knowledge as far as SEO and I am looking for some great information from someone who knows the facts.

#120 Comment By icang On November 25, 2008 @ 11:27 pm

wew,i’ve been thinking bout did i supposed to make my blog use doFollow or not, and stumbled at your article,not many of those site i’ve visit that stated dofollow give more benefit than nofollow, most of them just says,it will draw more spam, n therefore affect your rank, thx anyway, great post

#121 Comment By bongs On November 26, 2008 @ 6:44 pm

Thanks Eli I’ve been wondering about this for some time.

#122 Comment By Buy domain Names On November 30, 2008 @ 6:57 am

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#126 Comment By Link Building Services On December 11, 2008 @ 12:26 am

The post was cool. It’s one of those few posts that are useful and relevant and stick to their SEO guns. I’m fed up by obsolete SEO blogs that seem to recycle SEO garbage. Keep it up!

#127 Comment By Terry@Charlotte NC On December 17, 2008 @ 7:15 am

had to read it a couple of times but it makes great sense as an advanced linking strategy-right wher i’m at. thanks

#128 Comment By Aries On December 21, 2008 @ 6:07 am

Its always cool to see people who know what they’re talking about telling it like it is.

where did this idea that sitewide links don’t work come from anyway?

#129 Comment By VUDU Marketing On December 23, 2008 @ 1:30 pm

A very intelligent post. I’ve done a good deal of linking research, and I agree with you.

#130 Comment By host On December 24, 2008 @ 4:22 am

People and Gurus say that owtbound Linking Is worthless and basically they are true to a large extent,but I’m pretty skeptical about It not being included in Search engine Alog’s,I think they have always been included in calculations of search engines.

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#136 Comment By seo test On January 20, 2009 @ 6:56 am

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#139 Comment By voyance On January 26, 2009 @ 3:56 pm

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#141 Comment By BusbySEO Test On January 28, 2009 @ 1:58 pm

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#142 Comment By Sweaty Palms On January 29, 2009 @ 4:06 pm

It’s funny how I’ve been doing SEO for many of my sites and I’ve never thought that adding relevant outbound links can actually help my ranking.

I’ll test it and see how it goes.

Thanks for the tip.

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#143 Comment By Sit Stay Fetch Review On January 31, 2009 @ 2:24 pm

Interesting article! I always thought that have outbound links hurt a page when it comes to rankings. This is why on my static sites I use nofollow on all pages the are irrelevant such as about me page and contact us etc.

#144 Comment By Custom Glass On February 3, 2009 @ 10:34 am

Thanks for the great posts. I’m removing all my nofollow links.

#145 Comment By Rocket Spanish Reviews On February 3, 2009 @ 4:47 pm

I removed all the nofollow tags off my site and will track the results. Thanks for the article.

#146 Comment By Regalos originales On February 4, 2009 @ 8:43 am

Great explanation! Finally somebody who gives you a clear, logic answer on this issue. I will test your theory to see if it works.

#147 Comment By MDP On February 4, 2009 @ 8:17 pm

Nice article. I had always thought the opposite on site-wide links but I’ll have to give this a try.

#148 Comment By drop it like its On February 6, 2009 @ 11:37 am

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#151 Comment By Floor Steam Cleaner On February 10, 2009 @ 4:01 pm

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#152 Comment By bob house On February 11, 2009 @ 4:52 pm

amazing post Eli. excellent read, i will start allowing more outbound links on my site.

#153 Comment By fx trading On February 12, 2009 @ 11:23 am

Thanks to sitewide link exchanges I managed to get to the top10 in Google in quite a competitive market. So, it does work.

#154 Comment By rider On February 16, 2009 @ 8:01 am

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#155 Comment By Orlando Seo David On February 16, 2009 @ 3:33 pm

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#156 Comment By Tom On February 17, 2009 @ 1:49 am

Really great post,through it’s hard for me to read this long post,I can get some fresh concepts,thanks again.

#157 Comment By How to Make Money | Abdulrehman On February 18, 2009 @ 8:46 am

So what you’re saying is that outbound links really have no effect on a page’s rank?

#158 Comment By Review your web host get a backlink On February 21, 2009 @ 4:02 pm

Crazy world when 5million webmasters thing the contrary to this 5million agree with you and 200million don’t know what to think.

Would be best it everyone just concentrated their time and effort on creating webpages that people wanted to link to because they were excellent and didn’t have to worry about the whole page rank thing.

#159 Comment By Mobotix On March 2, 2009 @ 5:15 am

Brilliant post –>> as long as it turnes out to be the truth :-)

In any case - I can smell that your thinking is based on a lot more realistic structure than a lot of the blogs out there. There is something like a ‘old and new testament’ in SEO too - A lot of people are still struggling with static ‘chisseld in stone’ regulations while some are moving on in greater realms of reality. You seem to be talking like one of the latter group… in SEO that is :-)

#160 Comment By Steen Öhman On March 3, 2009 @ 8:31 am

The biggest problem is link spam when you have dofollow on your blog.

Have been a lot of east europeans spammers on my site lately …

But otherwise a good comment contribute to the quality of the blog and the domaine - so a dofollow is in order in that case!

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#161 Comment By Steen Öhman On March 3, 2009 @ 8:52 am

Well dofollow is fine, but it attracts a lot of link spammers. Had some east european link spammers on my blogs last week.

I wonder how long Google will use links from blogs in the ranking of sites - there sure are a lot of junk comments.

Anyhow a good comment deserves a follow.

#162 Comment By regalos originales On March 5, 2009 @ 5:13 pm

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#163 Comment By regalinos On March 5, 2009 @ 5:14 pm

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#164 Comment By forex faculty On March 7, 2009 @ 9:20 am

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#165 Comment By Online Shopping On March 9, 2009 @ 1:13 am

I believe in having both relevant and irrelevant outbound links.After all, it’s link to your site!Thanks for your article!

#166 Comment By New Hairstyles On March 10, 2009 @ 10:22 pm

I noticed a big difference in ranking and traffic after impementing sidewide links. Great post by the way!

#167 Comment By Shop Fitting On March 17, 2009 @ 12:39 am

Yes, Google is not really diminishing value for outgoing links.

#168 Comment By phreakaholic On March 17, 2009 @ 10:47 am

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#169 Comment By ENT Doctor On March 18, 2009 @ 9:50 am

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#170 Comment By Free Webmaster SEO Tools On March 22, 2009 @ 10:13 pm

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#171 Comment By curhat online On March 23, 2009 @ 7:41 pm

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I was under the impression that site-wide links were now a bad factor in the big G’s eyes. Is this correct?

#174 Comment By Buy Roor On April 7, 2009 @ 11:48 pm

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#175 Comment By Pozycjonowanie Poznan On April 14, 2009 @ 11:58 pm

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#176 Comment By Increase Traffic On April 17, 2009 @ 4:38 am

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#177 Comment By T42p On April 18, 2009 @ 10:47 am

so if there are (some) consequences of one-way dofollow links, how come you saying they won’t hurt your site?

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#179 Comment By Odzyskiwanie Danych On April 21, 2009 @ 2:50 am

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#180 Comment By grand rapids wedding photographers On April 24, 2009 @ 8:17 am

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#181 Comment By Caleb (Market Secrets Blogger) On April 28, 2009 @ 6:25 pm

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#182 Comment By Used Tires On May 3, 2009 @ 5:12 pm

Wow it was great to have you answer those questions, and give us a very detailed analysis in regards to outbound links, and the loss they may have, etc.

#183 Comment By Raj On May 7, 2009 @ 9:46 pm

Quite informative article. Gives new thoughts to focus upon regarding site-wide inbound and outbound links.

#184 Comment By Keith D On May 12, 2009 @ 12:18 pm

Thanks for the post.

Good to know that in linking to sites within my own business field, I’m not doing myself any harm.

Ta very much

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#186 Comment By Hanna @ Watch Live Soccer On May 15, 2009 @ 2:37 pm

Linking to relevant sites is never harmful. As a matter of fact, there should be linking out as well as linking in.

#187 Comment By Wig On May 27, 2009 @ 4:44 am

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#188 Comment By China Interests On May 28, 2009 @ 4:25 am

It may be punished by Google when you applied cross promotion.

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#191 Comment By ashay@Webdevelopment nj On June 4, 2009 @ 6:08 am

Hi,
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#192 Comment By Mark On June 4, 2009 @ 6:57 pm

if the total PR of all pages online is 1… and its a zero sum system, then there has to be winners and losers when people link to other sites.

#193 Comment By Bv Cures On June 10, 2009 @ 10:31 am

“Your comments will not hurt my rankings..”
And what will be the effect is somebody links in your comment to a pharmacy/adult/banned site. Will it still not hurt your rankings by linking out to bad neighbourhood?

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#198 Comment By SEO Nottingham On July 2, 2009 @ 10:45 am

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#199 Comment By Ubieranki On July 5, 2009 @ 9:50 am

it depends….some people say that links is link..and other…that only good link have a value…

#200 Comment By Chris On July 16, 2009 @ 5:00 pm

Hey

I always thought massively interlinking your sites was a bad thing. I have about 6 websites in the same niche but don’t link any of them as I always thought it would be bad (they are on the same server)

Based on this topic, if I were to sitewide link to them all I would see a massive boost in rankings.

So what do I do?

1. Link them all up
2. Link only certain ones
3. Move them all to separate servers then link them
4. Something else?

I would really appreciate an accurate answer on this

Thanks

#201 Comment By Seo Lair On July 25, 2009 @ 8:53 am

Google can see affiliated sites with site wide links like a footer link. They discount the link juice value of those links since they know its the same person linking to themselves. Unless you get very tricky with registrations, hosting, etc… It is hard to not get those site wide links discounted.

#202 Comment By chrissyrodrick On July 31, 2009 @ 11:25 pm

WOW, it is so nice to hear an expert say that do-follow comments DO NOT affect your rankings, there are so much misinformed and completely moronic notions flying around on this subject, and I always laugh when I hear them from those that don’t have a clue.

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#203 Comment By TC On August 21, 2009 @ 10:06 am

Linking has always been an issue. Will you get slapped or blessed by Big G? The last I heard was outbound authority links are good because they provide content to the reader and that is one of the big criteria Google uses.

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#206 Comment By Made Easy Forex On September 10, 2009 @ 12:35 pm

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#207 Comment By sports picks On September 18, 2009 @ 1:25 pm

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#214 Comment By WebTalent Internet Marketing On October 16, 2009 @ 4:46 pm

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#216 Comment By John On October 20, 2009 @ 10:59 pm

I prefer linking only to the sites that I trust and I consider authority sites. You may confuse your readers if you have irrelevant links on your site.

#217 Comment By Charlotte On October 30, 2009 @ 11:01 am

That’s the very first time that I’ve heard outbound links will help your SEO. Thanks for the info.

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#219 Comment By Roleplay Forum On November 5, 2009 @ 4:36 am

Outbound links to respected sites in particular seem to be very effective in getting Google’s attention.

#220 Comment By Floor Steam Cleaner On November 6, 2009 @ 4:44 pm

I will say that this is also the first time I’ve heard of outbound links helping your SEO. The note about sitewide links on lyrics sites is also of interest. Those sites literally have 100k+ pages. That is where sitewide links definitely can help.

#221 Comment By Montreal Web Design On November 7, 2009 @ 6:32 pm

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I have noticed the same thing sometimes, I do a nice long reply post and it does not work. So I cut and paste each one in case this happens.

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#240 Comment By Beth On January 9, 2010 @ 2:23 pm

I think I am understanding what you are saying.

The problem I am having is finding a method whereby people will link with my site because of its content, and not because of any internal or external benefit of the link itself.

That is, if I understand the pure purpose of linking to a site to begin with, it is to have readily available articles or data that are valuable to one’s business, hobby or family.

For example, if I am a dentist, I might want to link my site to a dental technique research site, not with the thought of increasing or decreasing my search engine ranking, but rather to make sure I stay current with my profession.

So, the big reference sites get a lot of that kind of love.

It is the guy who is attempting to market something that is being marketing by tens of thousands or perhaps millions of people who has the problem of encouraging others to take the time and make the effort to link to his or her site.

Why would they do it?

As a matter of fact, I think the data shows that people won’t do it unless there is real informational value on a site OR, there is cross linking going on by agreement having nothing to do with the value of the sites involved themselves.

For me, that kind of technique has the potential of undermining the purpose of a search engine to begin with. That is, a search engine needs to have the goal of bringing to the public’s attention the sites best able to answer a question or solve a problem for a consumer.

If the search engine is duped by cross linking having nothing to do with the intrinsic value of a site, how is that good for the consumer?

On the other hand, we might make an assumption that the sites with the most links, regardless of how they came to be, is the best for the public.

I find that to be a difficult proposition to accept.

However, it may be true. I just don’t know.

#241 Comment By Tom M. On January 15, 2010 @ 10:08 am

I always thought that the only benefit of outbound links was for your site visitor.

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I wanted to comment about your question you answered regarding 2 sites with each are pointing to each other. I see this kind of marketing all the time… Especially lawyer sites… A lawyer gets one website with his own domain johnsmithlawyer.xyz for example and then he starts another site with the keywords in it minneapolisaccidentlawyer.xyz and then he pounds links between them… It works like a dream… you see both sites on page#1 and a backlink check reveals most of the inbound links come from the other site…it is used all the time…

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Setting up two sites with appropriate domain names and setting up multiple links between the two can work short term, but adding more and more reciprocal links between the two will eventually be picked up by the bots, especially if they’re on the same ip, but eventually, even if they’re not.
We had one “competitor” who used this technique qith a promise to “pay us when you’re on page 1″, which happened. The client paid up happily, then two or three months down the line, they were blacklisted by Google.
We then went in, at the request of the local BusinessLink, contacted by the client in panic, to clean up the mess and sort it out long term with white hat SEO.
All I’m saying is, best be cautious with this technique.

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The search engines want to give the best value they can to visitors to your site or any other. If they think your site is more valuable to a visitor’s needs, it’ll rank above it (given all else is equal). If outbound links relate to something relevant and useful to visitors, they’ll help your site.

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Currently Google pays much more attention to authority of the link, not to the number of links.

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Creating this web of links is one of the best ways to gain rankings for sure. People underestimate this concept by searching for various keywords in various niches. When if they search for various keywords within the same niche, pick a few, build a site around each one, and link them together works great.

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My internal links for my site was at 510 and recently dropped to 107. While my Indexed Pages does say 530 (in webmaster tools).

I’m just wondering if this is just temporary, and will be re-updated and fixed. I know with new websites, it can fluctuate kind of randomly for no reason.

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