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How should I handle external links?

Apr 30th, 2008 03:52
Maneet Puri, http://www.lexolutionit.com

Outbound links are a balancing act. You need to decide how much PR is
worth to you (as compared to your users' experience at your site) and
then decide what is the best way to achieve your maximum PR without
sacrificing a satisfactory user experience. 

One thing you could do is use a robots.txt file to prevent search
engines from crawling pages with outbound links. Then no PR is lost
because the search engines aren't even crawling those pages. But keep in
mind that any internal links on those pages won't be counted either.
This is common to do with a directory. 

Maneet Puri

http://www.lexolution.in/blog