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Linking out to authority sites...

by Tony Dean
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Does linking out to a very high authority site do anything for your sites ranking?

I read somewhere that Google expects websites to link out to other sites as you would have other sites backlink to you.
#authority #linking #sites
  • Profile picture of the author pengerik
    I certainly can't do anything harm for your rankings as far as I know. It's although best if the authority site you link to have some relevance to your site.

    The search engines will see this as relevance - but how much I don't know.
    Link to numerous sites with no relevance is not particularilly good.
    Too many links is no good either.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    I read somewhere a while ago that this worked or at least made some kind of difference somehow / someway. I've never tried it and I'm not sure if I believe it. I've considered it, but to be honest, forget all about it until this post.

    I don't imagine it would hurt if you sold sports gear and had a link to ESPN.
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  • Profile picture of the author webpromoterservice
    it would probably help if it is really relevant to the content of your website and much better if your site is also mentioned on that authority site
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  • Profile picture of the author Amenda Jessera
    Ya, You are right, Giving a backlink to an authority site (not a link exchange) will help to get more hugs from Google :p
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    interesting, so there does appear to be some weight behind this idea.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    Actually, Google is known to favor two types of sites: Authority and Hub sites. All we ever hear about is authority sites.

    A hub site is one that links to a number of high quality, relevant sites, while also having a lot of incoming links to the site.

    For more info n hub sites:
    hub and authority sites - Google Search=
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  • Profile picture of the author desi4eva
    Kurt > thanks this was a nice read!
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