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link out

link out verb: to link to an external website.

Verb

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

  1. (Internet) To 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

Forms of link out

third-person singular presentlinks out
present participlelinking out
past participlelinked out
pastlinked out

Questions about link out

What does link out mean?
Link out means to link to an external website.
What part of speech is link out?
Link out is a verb.
What is the past tense of link out?
The past tense of link out is linked out.

Words near link out in the dictionary

  1. link juice
  2. link language
  3. link languages
  4. link motion
  5. link motions
  6. link out
  7. link rat
  8. link rot
  9. link spam
  10. link spams
  11. link state

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