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SEO Outbound Link Relevance
You know search engines evaluate a site based primarily on the
links going to it (inbound links). The PageRank of the sites on
which the inbound links are located, and the anchor text of the
links, matter a lot. But if you're like most webmasters, you
don't appreciate the value of outbound links. Outbound Link
Relevance & Anchor Text
The clearest way that outbound links can affect SEO is through
their anchor text.
Outbound links' anchor text affects a page's search engine
ranking in much the same way that inbound links' anchor text
affects search engine ranking. Anchor text of inbound links is
arguably the most important factor in search engine rankings for
particular keywords. For instance, if "fuzzy keyword" is in the
anchor text of a link to a webpage, that webpage may well appear
in SERPs for "fuzzy keyword" even if neither the word "fuzzy"
nor "keyword" appears anywhere on your site.
Outbound links' anchor text works the same way, though it is
slightly less powerful. If you have a particular keyword in the
anchor text of a link on a webpage, that webpage will likely
show up in search engine results--even if it appears nowhere
else on the page, and even if there are no inbound links with
that anchor text.
Don't believe me? Look at your web traffic logs. Check out the
search engine traffic to specific pages. You'll likely see
plenty of instances of the page getting traffic for search
strings that appear nowhere else on the page but in the anchor
text of outbound links.
One example from a site I own is on endometrialcancer.org, a
project devoted to provided information about a disease. There
are separate pages for symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, and other
aspects of the disease. Strikingly, one page my rank highly for
another page's target keyword, if it links to the other page
with the target keyword in its anchor text. For instance, the
"diagnosis" page may outrank the "symptoms" page for the keyword
"endometrial cancer symptoms," merely because the "diagnosis"
page has that keyword in the anchor text of its link to the
symptoms page. How to shoot yourself in the foot with
outbound link anchor text relevance:
There are four main ways to shoot yourself in the foot by
mishandling outbound links' anchor text:
1. Don't include relevant outbound links on the webpage. There
are many sites nearly all of whose
pages have no outbound links
but a standard navigation bar, and perhaps a link to the site's
web designer, host, or CMS maker. What exactly is a search
engine algorithm supposed to make of a webpage if the only
outbound links it has have anchor text such as "about us,"
"contact," "privacy," "site map," "Design by TechGnome," and
"This site powered by Mambo Open CMS"?
2. Don't include off-site outbound links on the webpage. Think
about it for a moment: what is the one thing a truly informative
webpage would have to have, besides content? Links to other
sites! If a page has no outbound links to other sites, there is
a good chance the page is a dead end, or worse, a billboard. At
the very least, include at least one intra-site link that isn't
part of the standard site navigation.
3. Include irrelevant links. I have a client site that sells
computer equipment. After paying me all the money for my
services largely in hopes of getting more search engine traffic,
they decide to sell irrelevant links on the homepage, for a
fraction of what they paid me. If you were a search engine
algorithm, what would you make of a site that had "computer
equipment" in the page title, headings, and inbound link anchor
text--but had two outbound links with "Costa Rican beach resort"
and "Low-cost mortgages" in the anchor text? If I were the
algorithm, I'd get a little confused, and play it safe by
ranking the site for none of those keywords. After all, there
are plenty of sites that make a less ambiguous case for their
relevance for any of those keywords.
4. Include relevant outbound links, but forget the anchor text.
If you are linking to a relevant webpage, whether on-site or
off-site, by all means, use your page's target keyword in the
anchor text! Now is not the time to get lazy and use the URL as
the anchor text. You are doing the right thing by linking to
relevant webpage. Make sure you get credit for your good deed!
After all, they call it the web because the links go both in and
out, tying sites together like nodes of spider silk. If links
were only meant to flow one way, they'd just call it the
chain.
Don't chain your website down. Start sharing the links.
About the author:
About the author:
Joel Walsh writes prolifically on SEO articles:
http://www.UpMarketSEO.com
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