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What is IBL and OBL
Is less OBL is good for the quality links.

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Short version: inbound links (links from other sites to yours), outbound links (links from your pages to other sites) and internal links (between pages on the same site) are three different things — mixed those up. and touched on the right ideas, but the real answer is more nuanced: quality and relevance matter far more than simply "more" or "less" outbound links.

Fewer outbound links is not automatically better. Useful, relevant outbound links improve user experience and can increase trust. Outbound links to low-quality or paid-for pages, or large numbers of irrelevant links, can hurt perceived site quality and trigger penalties if they look like link schemes. Focus first on user value; then apply link hygiene. See Google on link schemes for what to avoid: Google: Link schemes. For practical discussion about outbound linking and SEO, see this overview: .

Practical steps:

  • Audit outbound links for relevance and quality. Remove or fix links to spammy sites.

  • Mark paid or sponsored links and untrusted user-generated links with the appropriate rel attribute (Google treats these attributes as signals). Example:

    <a href="https://example.com" rel="sponsored">Sponsor</a>
<a href="https://example.com" rel="ugc">Comment reference</a>
<a href="https://example.com" rel="nofollow">Untrusted</a>

  • Use internal links to spread authority and help crawlers navigate your site.

  • Avoid sitewide reciprocal link exchanges and obvious paid-link schemes.

Checklist: keep outbound links relevant, label paid/UGC links, remove links to low-quality sites, and measure changes (traffic, rankings) after cleanup. That approach answers ’s question more safely than just "less OBL = better."

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IBL - In Bound Links = this are the links came from other sites or blogs going through your website sample of this are forum sigs.

OBL - Out Bound Links = this are the links that came from your site going to other site, like example when you're doing link trades.

I dont have idea about OBL but IBL helps to increase the page rank.

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Out bond links are benifical for our site and Inbond link are all internal pages.

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Smiley Sansoni

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OBL is good for getting quality for your websites.

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