Comments on: Link Strategy Tip - You Need Outgoing Links Too

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:57:05 +0000

@Susan Jones,

Hey Susan, sorry it took so long to reply. Welcome to our little community; hope to see you ’round more often!

I’m getting more focused day to day, how about you?

By: Susan Jones

Susan Jones — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:13:53 +0000

Is Your Link Building Actually Focused? I say so! Thank you so much for this. Learned alot here!

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:39:13 +0000

@Mitch, Yep that should be the main point to it. Providing extra muscle to an article you write.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:04:16 +0000

Absolutely good stuff, Dennis. I like to think I'm pretty good at linking outside of my own blog, as it also helps to shore up what it is you're talking about many times. Mitch´s last blog post..Sugar Alcohol Problems

By: Dennis Edell: Search Blogger of the Day | SEO Tips Mashup

Dennis Edell: Search Blogger of the Day | SEO Tips Mashup — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:42:11 +0000

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By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:06:57 +0000

Hey Jeff, welcome to the community!

You’re right about traditional websites (excluding the ever popular link farms of course). I think linking out for usefulness was something quite new and refreshing for bloggers.

Broken/dead links will always be an ongoing battle. I personally use and highly recommend the Broken Link Checker plugin for Wordpress blogs.

I’ve never used any external methods, but thanks for the Xenu mention; I’ll check it out.

It can get worse. You link out to a site and that domain gets bought and turned into an phishing or spam site. Now your site has a link to a site that is not trustworthy. Would this bring you down, hard to tell.

Very good point here, and I’m sure it does happen. I would think (hope!) Google would consider age in this case.

For example: you have a linking pointing out to a site for 5 years….all of a sudden on re-crawl they notice the site is now “bad”. I would really hope they would take the age of that link into consideration and realize you did not purposely link to a garbage site.

Thanks for the awesome comment Jeff, and I hope to see you ’round more often.

By: Jeff Louella

Jeff Louella — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:41:57 +0000

This makes sense when you are dealing with blogs, but most business sites are not linking out. I agree with linking out, but for a lot of sites it’s not an option.

There is the issue of linking to dead pages. Yes it was there when you linked to it, but 2 months later it’s now broken. The more a site links out, the more it needs to run programs like Xenu to find dead and broken links.

If you are going to link out a lot, just make sure you keep up with the maintenance. It could turn a trustworthy idea into dirt.

By: Dennis Edell: Search Blogger of the Day | SEO Scoop

Dennis Edell: Search Blogger of the Day | SEO Scoop — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:22:42 +0000

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:55:41 +0000

That’s an extremely powerful method, so congrats! Assuming the high ranking blogs care, not all do, this is certainly a method worth promoting.

By: firstwebsearch

firstwebsearch — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:05:06 +0000

I see your point in building trust and the aspect that networking gives you. I think you are right on both counts. I had actually used a similar method to attract links that had to do with writing about a few people that ran high pr blogs in my industry. I had all kinds of links develop off that effort. Not only did they all link back to the site but a couple wrote reviews recommending their visitors take a look at my site too. firstwebsearch´s last blog post..Blog entry: Firstwebsearch.com as your Internet Marketing Partner