Does it help or hurt search engine ranking to link to other sites?

ajlancer Level X³

June 5, 2016, 5:19 pm

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Does it help or hurt search engine ranking to link to other sites?

It's just my opinion, but I think that Google wants it's users to be able to search and find out the most relevant and authoritative websites for any given query. So when you link to authoritative websites that contain relevant information, you are providing a worthwhile service to Google search users.

What is your opinion?

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Beverly

Beverly

Linking out to relevant authhority sites is always a good idea and definitely increases your site's trust factor with Google.

Just think how trusted Wikipedia is with Google, always ranking high in Google search results, for almost any term you can imagine. Maybe a big part of that comes from the numerous annotations which link to authoritative source material. Those annotations/links say to Google, all this information is well documented and based on authoritative sources, versus just another person's opinion.

9 years ago

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chetaseo

chetaseo

MY TAKE: A website needs to have a good quality content as well as a good quality backlinks too. both of them work hand-in-hand. If you have a good content and there are not visitors readers to read it, then it is just useless so you need backlinks to rank it high in search engine results so that you can get traffic to your website. That is what i mainly do for my website. Creating backlinks can hurt your website if they are so numerous and of low quality all created at the same period.

9 years ago

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EliteWriter

EliteWriter

As long as the links are of good quality and relevant, they will be helpful for SEO purposes. A lot of backlinks will not be advantageous. Backlinks need to be made wisely if they are to prove beneficial. So, the higher the relevance of the inbound links is, the greater their quality is. One thing is for sure - interlinking sites will not help from a search engine point of view. And too many reciprocal links are not recommended. I feel that as long as one does backlinks in a responsible way, they will help. Otherwise they will be disadvantageous.

9 years ago

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vinaya

vinaya

I don't think to link your website to other websites is a good idea. When you link to another website, you are basically pointing your visitors to other websites. The content on your website should always satisfy your visitors and you should not drive your visitors to other websites.
When you are publishing an article with facts, sharing one of two links as the source of your fact can be considered good. However, your main intention of having these links at the bottom of your article is only to establish the authenticity of your article, and not pointing your visitors to other websites.

7 years ago

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Corzhens

Corzhens

Correct me if I am not right in my understanding of the subject of this discussion. If I have a blog that has a paragraph about a kind of dog’s breed and I cited a portion of Wikipedia for proof of course I have to include the link of that Wikipedia page, right? Will that link be the one that we are talking about in this discussion? Will that link help the reputation of the blog with search engines?

6 years ago

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