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You! With the Link! Quit Being so Darn Stingy!
Link Building News Source: http://www.searchengineguide.com
Published: Oct 05, 2007 - 02:18 pm
Story Found By: TheNanny612 1696 Days ago
Category: Link Building
I loved this post by Jennifer Laycock. She writes about the fact that many website owners will not link out to any site with a low Google PageRank . I often wondered about this, after all aren’t we to offer our readers outbound links that will benefit them?

Great article Jennifer!!
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from planetc1 1696 Days ago #
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Great post and many sites featured here show good examples of users freelly sharing topics and links. Just look at the number of ’new’ SEO blogs in the user lists. There is no shortage of goodwill, an undervalued side bonus of the Sphinn community.

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from TheNanny612 1696 Days ago #
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I have to agree with you there.... 100%.  :)

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from TannerC 1696 Days ago #
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The way I look at links is this: you can gain a lot by having someone link to you, linking to others will cost you nothing.Why not throw a few good links here or there (if they’re truly deserving based on content, rather than ranking or authority)?Great find, as always, Shana.

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from AndyBeard 1695 Days ago #
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It is just as important not to go stingy in the SphinnsWendy’s original post was submitted early yesterdayhttp://sphinn.com/story/8252

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from TheNanny612 1695 Days ago #
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Sorry, Wendy and Simonne.... didn’t even see that.  Thanks Andy for pointing that out.  :)

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from AndyBeard 1695 Days ago #
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Shana nothing wrong with a double submit, Wendy has a chance of even more traffic now, and this happens a lot even to active Sphinn users.We even had that classic double of the same post URL once...It will be great to leverage this discussion to pull that one out of the depths a little.

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from jordanmcclements 1695 Days ago #
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I agree (says he as he blushes and rushes to update his (very) old help page where it said in a  very stingey way some waffle about high PR sites..)

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from thejenn 1694 Days ago #
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LOL, I was surprised to see that blog post sphunn as well since Wendy’s is already on here, but thanks for the sphinn love!I love it when posts like this come from people outside the standard realm of the SEO industry. Wendy knows quite a bit about SEO without "being" an SEO and her perspective is great. And yet, one of the first commenters on the post at my blog said he won’t link to PR0 blogs because he doesn’t want to have to watch to see if they get a higher PR down the road since he’d have to remove the link if they didn’t.I don’t get that at all. When did Google become the person who can judge the quality of a link or article? Who cares if it sits on a site that’s PR0 for ever. If it’s worth linking to, it’s worth linking to.

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