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Aymen Loukil

Hi edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y and thank you for this question !

My short answer : Out-bound links are good.
Longer answer : The foundation of the WWW (World Wide Web) is about getting documents connected each other with links. There are many good reasons to make relevant external links :

  • Useful for users to find more related resources, additional ones. You may not / can't cover everything
  • Useful for Google and search engines : They need to connect the dots and explore the web to be able to propose the closest documents to users searches.
  • Useful for your ecosystem (customers, suppliers, local network, partners).

Many metrics Search engines could use to review the value of a link check some of them described in (Moz SEO learning center) [moz.com/learn/seo/external-link] and yeah i'm adding an external link :)

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Music4india

Well I am seo expert too ! I agree with you abt out bound links but you will loose traffic if you do that. I prefer you make subpages for the required traffic for which you are making subpages. This is will even boost the pages which you are referring too. All the best ! :)