We all know that the backlinks increases the pagerank of a website. Do outbound links affect PageRank?
Can outbound links increase PageRank?
seo;pagerank;ranking
Outbound links do not increase PageRank. They do pass PageRank to the pages they link to, but they don't take it away from the page the link is on. You can learn more about how PageRank works at Wikipedia.As far as page ranking goes, Matt Cutts said linking to external sites can be a positive ranking factor. (But this only affects a page's ranking, not a page's PageRank.