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As to the linking....doesn't having lots of outlinks reduce your google pagerank?

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I've done some research on this. As best as i can tell, only google knows for sure. For the following reasons, my guess would be that it doesn't.

1. Besides pagerank, the other major internet search algorithm looks at 2 types of sites, hubs and authorities. Hubs are directories of useful authority sites. So if somebody built an entire algorithm around this, i doubt google would penalize sites for outgoing links alone.

2. The argument for penalizing sites with tons of outside links is preventing link farms and other black hat SEO techniques. Google seems to be focusing more on penalizing sites in "bad neighborhoods" rather than the structure of a site itself.

3. The structure of this idea is very white hat, so google will smile upon it eventaully, even if they don't now.


Also, count me in.