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linking out

linking out is the present participle and gerund of link out.

Meaning of link out

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

Questions about linking out

What is linking out the present participle and gerund of?
Linking out is the present participle and gerund of link out.

Words near linking out in the dictionary

  1. linking element
  2. linking elements
  3. linking in
  4. linking number
  5. linking numbers
  6. linking out
  7. linking r
  8. linking rs
  9. linking up
  10. linking verb
  11. linking verbs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: linking out (page history and authors); link out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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