Google's John Mueller Answers if Linking Out Good for SEO - Search Engine Journal

Google launched a new video series that answers a single question. The first episode was about links but in my opinion it did not adequately answer the question. "Does linking to other websites help or hurt SEO?" The SEO community has thought of outbound links as ranking signals since at least 2002. I hope to show you how and why outbound links for SEO was invented.