alt.internet.search-engines

mark r wrote
>i fully understand that linking to other websites is what the nets all
>about but what im saying is that based on my experience and the
>resulting shift in serps links out from your website are detrimental
>to your position.

If your linking has been link exchanges and reciprocal linking with cr*p
sites, then your conclusion and experience certainly fit.

However, if you choose to link only to quality sites (on the basis that
'these sites will be of interest to my visitors, and they will think well of
me for such recommendations'), then your experience will be entirely
different.

Google's best kept secret (as so many SEOs ignore anything that conceivably
help 'someone else'), is that outgoing links to quality sites are a major
boon to your site.

Get over the old prejudices, and think positive. It works.
--

Andrew
http://www.seo2seo.com/
http://www.sick-site-syndrome.com/
First things first - but not necessarily in that order.

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