External Links for Page Rank and SEO
I have made a point of this in our main Page Rank article. The number of external links directed out of a page will have an impact on your page rank (and inevitably your you search engine rankings). Now I will just try to touch up on it a little more.
The number of external links on a page will effect how Google will view a new web page. If you have a little to many links that will decrease your page rank because the PR of that page will be slightly distributed throughout the rest of the pages. If you have way to many links (like directories) then your page will come out looking like a spam page and you will get sand boxed.
The second idea is really associated with directories and link lists. For now I will just talk about link lists and blogging. When your blog and you are making a link list, give the links the nofollow attribute to each external link in the list to ensure that the page is not sand boxed.
Now, we know for a fact external links can lower page rankings for pages. What can we do to really implement this idea to our websites.
Well, we can work like Wikipedia, and make every single external link nofollow. Or, we can just cut down on how many external links we have on a page.
You can use this information in anyway you want.
Also if you have not seen it allready check out our main page for the complete page rank article.
August 6th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I like your suggested use of the nofollow - I’ve been using it with good success on some of my external links as well as internal links I don’t want to pass PR to.