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I am using the UAW plug-in on my site to get automatic content posted to post to my site. These articles have outgoing links, two per post.

Will these links bleed my sites pagerank (PR3)?

I am posting one article per day, so that's 60 outgoing links per month

Sam
#links #outgoing
  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Hi Sam,

    Technically speaking, your website doesn't have PR. PR or PageRank is assigned to individual pages and it has very little influence on the page that it is assigned to. Nearly all of the power that your pages' PR possesses is in its' ability to weight the influence of your outbound links.

    Any and all links on your page will bleed all of your PR to the pages you are linking to. If you have multiple outbound links, then each share equally in the total power of your page's PR. In fact the only real power that your PR possesses is in it's ability to "bleed" or pass PageRank. It's a use it, or lose it power.

    You could choose to hoard all of your PR by only linking to internal pages, however your page's SERP ranking can be positively influenced by outbound links. Additionally, you aren't legally able to post your contributor's content without posting those attribution links in exchange for that content.

    The bottom line is: don't worry about bleeding PageRank, that is the whole point of PR to begin with, hoarding PR doesn't work as well as it use to and may actually work against you.
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  • Profile picture of the author mloveridge17
    stay legal... content is a lot more important than worrying about passing pagerank.

    in fact, passing pagerank has very little impact on your site. it only helps other sites. the fact that you are willing to link out indicates a more natural flow of information that can help your rankings.
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  • Profile picture of the author samcarson
    Thanks Guys. I just watched a video by Matt Cutts and he confirmed that there is a slight PR bleed for each outgoing link. So I deleted all the articles that UAW posted and deactivated the plug-in

    Sam
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