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Importance Of Outbound Links

ArjunUllaz

Published on March 20, 2016

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Have you ever searched deeply why we need Outbound links ? Yes, few may and have you considered why it's important to have or wondered how to produce them ?

Because we are blogging in a post-panda world, I'm offering up this post to make you realize what are outbound links and why it's important to have outbound links for SEO...

Yoast SEO plugin really encourages for inserting outbound links while writing a post. Yoast users may know it I guess as it shows an orange circle if we miss to insert any outbound links

What Are Outbound Links ?

Outbound links are a type of links that point out to some other websites or blogs from your site.

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Why Is It Important ?

Outbound links give the search engine a clear concept about your niche because of relevant links. It helps to increase the trust and quality of your site, therefore, multiplying your blog SEO and also offers the best way to be in touch or build a relationship with other bloggers as well.

Few Suggestions For Best Outbound Links

  • Link to resources like Wiki but avoid too many outbound links from the same post.
  • Link to relevant blogs which actually valuable and cover the topic very well.
  • Link to articles having excellent page authority or domain authority.
  • It's good if you are linking to articles which got maximum social media shares.

**At the same time inserting your outbound link for your blog never means that you must link to suspicious sites or banned site. If does it will effect you negatively and search engines like Google may devalue your links which affect your blog as well**.

So friends never miss adding an outbound link in your post again.Thatz it. I hope you Guys enjoyed reading my small post about outbound links.

Best wishes to all!!!!

Arjun

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