Deeplinking to Authority Sites

[cbright]

I read alot that it's best for on-page optimization to link to an authority site, after awhile I understand it but don't like it but want to try it with a 1up method

Lets say you have a site of 500 pages and you have the capability of linking to targeted articles of wikipedia that relate very closely to what your page is about,
would that be better than linking to a single wikipedia page based on the sites general category?

Also in certain cases that won't always be possible so would it be better to link to that same general wikipedia article that relates to your sites overall theme or link to the wikipedia search page with your term for that single page?

[cbright]

bump again looking for an answer

[JamesGw]

I don't think it matters so much where you'll need to worry about it, if at all. Just throw up a nofollow link as a citation once in a while if you really feel the need to deep link to an authority site.

[cbright]

Linking to an authority site with a nofollow still gives that "Linking to Authority site" on-page seo credit?

[T2]

I personally do not make my authority links nofollow. I do link to an authority site on just about all my content pages. I do mix them up and have seen the SEO benefits of doing such.

I didn't used to do this but about 6 months ago I took a site that targeted a pretty easy to rank for keyword and added authority links on several of the pages. I didnt have that many backlinks just enough to get me on page 1 for my main keyword.

Less than 2 weeks later the main page was #1 for its main keyword and I had several other pages ranking on the 1st page for their respective variants of said keyword.

Good Content linking to Good Content. In my opinion that is what visitors and Google want to see.

Paul

[cbright]

Thank you much for your answer Paul.

What's your opinion on linking to wikipedia search pages if nothing really fits?

Do that or just link back to an article that covers the overall theme of the main site?

[tamarindcandy]

Interesting, I've never looked into this tactic before. Anyone else could comment on it? I'm not sure my site is really the kind of thing where deeplinking authority sites would, errr, fit very well anyway, but it might be worth a try.