Outbound links

Outbound Links
These links will, once clicked on, take users to another site.
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Outbound links
Links from your website to another website or webpage. The visitor generally has to leave your website to follow an outbound link.

Outbound Links:
Links on a particular web page leading to other web pages on a different domain.
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Outbound Links
Outbound links are all links from a particular webpage that lead to other pages, including pages in the same domain.

Outbound Links - Links on any Web page leading to another Web page, whether they are within the same site or another Web site.

Outbound links send visitors away from your web site. Attitudes towards outbound links vary considerably among site owners. Some site owners still link freely. Some refuse to link at all, and some provide links that open in a new browser window.

Outbound Links. From every content page of your site, link to "authoritative pages" on the subject. If you are unsure of an authoritative page, About.com is an excellent place to begin your search.

1. Many outbound links to sites (typically Authority sites) that contain relevant content
2. The content on the hub site is highly focused ...

Indexing Timeline - Matt Cutts states that sites which have many low quality inbound links and / or outbound links may struggle to rank or even get deeply indexed by Google.
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Outbound Links: Developing outbound links to other relevant websites is an important part of a linking campaign. Good links can add value to your website.

A directory website setup specifically for the purpose of creating outbound links to other sites to improve their ranking and, historically, indexing.

PageRank Drain
When a page has no outbound links, it causes pagerank drain because it cannot pass any value to another web page.

Today it is more likely that the search engines will find you - when you obtain in links, spiders and bots will come through your site as they follow outbound links form other sites. You could also try to get listed in directories such as DMOZ.

Nofollow can also be used in a robots meta tag to prevent a search engine from counting any outbound links on a page. This code would look like this
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See also: Marketing, Market, Outbound link, Internet, Spam