About Outbound Links
An outbound-link is the site or page link of other people on your website or page to promote others content, unlike inbound link it sends visitors away from your website. Outbound links can add value to your site by providing a useful information to users or visitors without you having to create the content. It is extremely difficult for a single website to be comprehensive about a subject area. At the same time outbound links are a potential jumping off point for users and also provide PageRank for the target page. Some search engines algorithms actually place value on sites with many outbound links. These are dubbed authority or expert sites.
Attitudes towards outbound links vary considerably among site owners. Some site owners still link freely. Some refuse to link at all, and some provide links that open in a new browser window.Opponents of outbound linking argue that it risks losing time and money from site visitors. This can be a large risk if a site is facing high customer acquisition costs.
Proponents argue that providing high quality references actually enhances the value of a site and increases the chance of return visitors.
Be careful about linking to bad neighbourhoods. These include LinkFarms and heavily optimized sites. These may get your site penalized. Be wary about any site with zero page rank or that can't be found in search engines. Check that it has not been banned for some reason. A single link to a bad neighbourhood is likely to cause problems but combined with other factors it could be viewed in a bad light by search engines.
It is possible to open outbound links in a new browser window using the HTML; target="_new" operator
<anchor target="_new">
but many users and web designers don't like this as it breaks the natural back and forward control provided by the browser.
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