link out

verb

To link to an external website.

Meanings

verblink out (third-person singular simple present links out, present participle linking out, simple past and past participle linked out)

present singular third person links out · participle present linking out · participle past linked out · past linked out

  1. InternetTo link to an external website.

    A brief aside about hoarding PageRank: many people have taken this to an extreme and built sites where they refused to link out to other quality websites, because they feared losing visitors and link juice.

    2012, Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola, Rand Fishkin, chapter 4, in The Art of SEO, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 111
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