I’ve set them all to no-follow just in case, but what I’m worried about is that – as 99 outbound links is a lot – will this affect the search engine rankings this article of mine will be getting in the near future?

Well done and thanks agin

What do you think about it?

One point for clarification, however. Given that:

“The value of each link is equal to the PageRank of the page where they come from divided by the total number of outgoing links on that page”

Should bloggers bear this in mind when deciding how frequently and who to link to?

For example, some blogs will link to every single company mentioned, to Wiki, etc. etc. whereas other blogs will only link to two or three companies, obviously to encourage traffic to those blessed few links.

These people are also distributing their PageRank influence differently, no?

One thing is certain, however. Based on the original patent, outlinks did indeed erode your PageRank. It wasn’t simply a rumor.

Best,
Bob

Overall, though, if adding those links will be useful for your readers then do it, cause Google supports that.

-ShueQry-

I always heard people say that’linking out will reduce PR’, but the matter is clear now and if doesn’t really reduce PR.

Anyway this means having a blogroll and recommended sites in the side bar will not reduce PR, right? As long as these sites I’m linking too are not spammy?

If you want to truly understand how it works you need to delve into some maths.

We have a complete lesson dedicated to the PageRank algorithm in the Online Profits course.

If the leaking bucket analogy is incorrect (great visual image) what could you use for the correct analogy?

The way explained with picture great.
you gave a great example.

Congrats! Good job!

Page Rank = 5
Number of links on page = 10
Page rank “lost” to each link = 5/10 = 0.5 (regardless of nofollow)

The big picture here is that nofollow isn’t all that critical. In fact, I’ve found instances were Google credits nofollow links and ignores follows. What’s most important is link relevance and the quality of the sites connected by the link. Nofollow is only a guide (one which Google commonly ignores). I wrote an blog post about this on YouMoz:

Do you use No Follow links?

“This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links.”

This came from the link you used.

This is where I’m coming from:

You can read more about it here:

If you link to bad neighbors, especially to sites containing malware, though, the risk is higher.

In this case the PageRank of the page that was de-indexed would also vanish, but in a sense it stays there as long as the links remain. Should you get the page re-indexed it will acquire its PageRank back, that is what I meant by saying PageRank remains intact.

More people should do this.

As a general rule, if makes sense to have an external link since it’s relevant, there’s little reason not to do it.

It’s just terrible when bloggers have a ton of unrelated links. Those will actually hurt them indirectly when Google can’t easily determine which niche the blog actually belongs to.

How about writing one more post on related back links effects your search results ?

But linking to unrelated web pages do affect the pagerank, and paid links are good examples. A few months ago, some websites’ pageranks were turned to zero because of paid links ( such as TLA).

The most appropriate way is putting links relevant with what u want to say, ur subject or niche. For me, linking is a way to appreciate the author/webmaster of any content, so lets do it.

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