Do many outbound links negatively impact PR?

[iconidpromos]

I have a site that sells promotional products. Since we represent many different suppliers, we have a page on our site that provides our site vistors a way to view supplier online catalogs for their convenience. This page, found at http://www.iconidentity.com/vipsuppliers.shtml, has several different "drop down" boxes with links to suppliers. Each drop down box has about 20 different links in each one. Since these suppliers are not linking back to us, will this have a negative impact on our PR?

[cbp]

Do many outbound links negatively impact PR?

No.

CBP

[iconidpromos]

ok- easy enough! :-)

One other question... Should all inbound links point to my homepage or would it help if they pointed to subpages that were relevant to where the inbound link is located? Does it matter?

[cbp]

I try to get to mixed up as much as possible

CBP

[SEOforGoogle]

[quote]Should all inbound links point to my homepage or would it help if they pointed to subpages that were relevant to where the inbound link is located? Does it matter?[quote]

You should always deliver your user to the page where your information resides. I don't know of too many websites that can fully explain what they sell or offer from their home page.


Regarding outbound links, this may help a bit...

[shameless plug alert]

http://seoarticles.seoforgoogle.com/...ound-Links.cfm

[Faglork]

May I add that when using outbound links, chose the link text carefully. Dont use the domain name or the Company name alone. Use a very short description, and see if you can use *your* keywords for it.

So if your site is about "beer" and you link to an overview of breweries in ... ummm ... let's say Hongkong (dumb example, I know):

Dont use

hnkngbeer.cn

or even worse

Hongkong Breweries: click here

but instead use

Breweries in Hongkong

or maybe better

Tsingtao Ltd: Breweries in Hongkong

To cut it short: Use meaningful link text, preferably with your keywords in it (if it makes sense, of course).


And I would consider to abandon the dropdown boxes. Use normal lists, group them and write one ore two descriptive sentences for each group. Your site will gain in usability and have better content (at least for the spiders). What do you want more?

hth,
Alex

[RichardS]

[quote="faglork"]
Hongkong Breweries: Tsingtao Ltd: Breweries in Hongkong




This gives me an idear Faglork. By the way I stopped by your website. All the words were mixed up. Could not read it. It's like it was in some diffrent alien language or somthin.



Cheers



RS

[Faglork]

RichardS: Although german *is* an alien language (lol), would you be so kind and provide me with some info: Browser, Version, OS and - if I am asking not too much - a screenshot? Please mail me at redaktion@wiesentbote.de

Your help is appreciated - we are about to develop a sort of international version so we better get some input from non-german visitors ...

Thank you very much,
Alex

[RichardS]

Originally Posted by faglork

RichardS: Although german *is* an alien language (lol), would you be so kind and provide me with some info: Browser, Version, OS and - if I am asking not too much - a screenshot? Please mail me at redaktion@wiesentbote.de

Your help is appreciated - we are about to develop a sort of international version so we better get some input from non-german visitors ...

Thank you very much,
Alex

I have poor since of humor, sorry. I swung by the web site, wasnt expecting german and the rest is comedic history.
I will work on my material.


Cheers



RS