Comments on: Matt Cutts Acknowledges SEO 2.0 Tactic of Linking Out as Ranking Factor (Nofollow is Dead)

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:21:21 +0000

I agree with Mark who posted earlier. You’ve really got to take this information with a pinch of salt, so to speak. Results speak volumes, so if it continues to work then why change?

By: Nikhil

Nikhil — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:51:16 +0000

I believe linking out definitely has its benefits. One thing is for sure though, don’t always believe what Google tells tells you as they aren’t going to openly explain how their algorithm works!

By: David Ackerman

David Ackerman — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:19:30 +0000

I agree, link out to quality websites not just for Google but mostly because this reflects well on your site for your visitors. If you send your visitors to quality relevant sites, they will associate that site with you, and think of your site in a better light.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:53:39 +0000

As someone who has been through countless Google changes over the years, I would encourage everyone to make SEO decisions based on experiments and actual results vs. whatever Google happens to be saying at the time. Results speak for themselves and they always speak the truth!

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:44:28 +0000

I just stumbled across this almost 2 year old article and found it to be very interesting. I know that with Propsblog, I was always very generous with outbound links, with this very idea in mind. After taking most of 2010 off from online marketing, I’m interested to see if there is more data on this.

Are you still having the same experience with outbound links helping your ranking?

By: Linking Out Instead of Link Building to Rank in Google | SEOptimise

Linking Out Instead of Link Building to Rank in Google | SEOptimise — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:05:17 +0000

[...] Moreover, Matt Cutts acknowledged in 2009 that outbound links are a ranking factor. [...]

By: Tom Willer

Tom Willer — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:25:30 +0000

What year does Matt Cutts explained this? 2009 or this year?

Still I believe that Google is using links for their algo. More links specially relevant links.:D

By: Keir

Keir — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:08:56 +0000

Have some limited data which suggests outbound links on blogs are effective Simply allowed comments to build up on a blog post and took them out, a month later and there was a drop of two positions

By: Phil Williams

Phil Williams — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:49:52 +0000

For us ‘ordinary’ web users, all this SEO ninja stuff is sch a minefield.

It’s so difficult to keep on top of this industry and be confident that you’re not doing something that the big G will frown on.

I guess that’s why the top SEO gurus are so well paid!

By: simon

simon — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:05:46 +0000

I would be interested to know your thoughts on how this theory is holding up in the latest round of changes over at google? It seems that google will reward as it always says good sites that take care of themselves and give out good info and have good content, these changes you explain would fit with that assumption
thanks for the great read btw