Reducing Page Rank with Outbound links

[jendeacott]

Hi,

I have heard mentioned that having outbound links on your page will lower the pages overall page rank. I.e. you pass on a portion of your PR.

For example.

If my home page has a PR of 2 and it has two outbound links, does that mean if I remove them after I get re-indexed I would have a PR of 4?

Or does it mean that I just have less PR to pass around my site and the page would stay at PR2 regardless?

Cheers
John


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[ChrisHirst]

Just another ill-informed myth

PR is NOT lost by outbound links, PR is passed to other page NOT transfered. Similar Question at HR





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[jendeacott]

Cheers Chris.

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[ChrisHunt]

Take a look at

http://www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/

for (much much) more information on how pagerank works.

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