Outgoing Links... just how important they can be!?

cellinis · 2005-08-24, 04:29 AM

PR5 doesn't mean much as far as SE goes for me either. I have 4 PR3 domains that rake in 10 times the SE traffic I get for this domain! The only reason I'm peeved is that my other domains don't have PR5 and they have better quality backlinks coming into them lol!

I am 90% certain that the PR of this domain is more from the outgoing links - mostly to major newspapers around the world, than anything else. I have another site listed in same category at DMOZ - Adult/News/ which has a PR4 despite over 8k in backlinks.
Yahoo says 2,200 backlinks for sexinmedia.com - but most of them come from my own lower PR sites.
Lets see if the PR holds in a couple of months. I'm not really promoting this domain for now.

Bill · 2005-08-24, 03:08 PM

Well, outgoing links are important content, and the general agreement is that they add to "relevancy" and improve SERP ranking.

But I have never heard anyone suggest that they pass on PR. Nor do I believe it's possible.

I think you either have a link from a high pr page that you haven't yet discovered, or that this is a rare but well known error that google sometimes makes with dmoz listings.

2005-08-24, 04:29 AM	#1
cellinis They have the Internet on computers, now? Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Paris Posts: 146	PR5 doesn't mean much as far as SE goes for me either. I have 4 PR3 domains that rake in 10 times the SE traffic I get for this domain! The only reason I'm peeved is that my other domains don't have PR5 and they have better quality backlinks coming into them lol! I am 90% certain that the PR of this domain is more from the outgoing links - mostly to major newspapers around the world, than anything else. I have another site listed in same category at DMOZ - Adult/News/ which has a PR4 despite over 8k in backlinks. Yahoo says 2,200 backlinks for sexinmedia.com - but most of them come from my own lower PR sites. Lets see if the PR holds in a couple of months. I'm not really promoting this domain for now. __________________ Submit your freesites & galleries here and here.

2005-08-24, 03:08 PM	#2
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	Well, outgoing links are important content, and the general agreement is that they add to "relevancy" and improve SERP ranking. But I have never heard anyone suggest that they pass on PR. Nor do I believe it's possible. I think you either have a link from a high pr page that you haven't yet discovered, or that this is a rare but well known error that google sometimes makes with dmoz listings.