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My name's Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 134 of the blog Millionaire.

This is part four of a five-part series where I'm answering some of the biggest and most

relevant questions about the current SEO landscape.

So let's go ahead and get right into this episode's big question.

That question is, should I link to external websites from my blog post and how does it affect my SEO?

The simple answer here is yes, you should be linking out to external websites, but you have to understand the strategies for executing this.

The first thing you need to take into account is dwell time. Dwell time is one of the

biggest factors of the Google algorithm. It measures the period of time someone spends on your

domain name after clicking through on a Google result before they return back to Google. The longer

the dwell time that your blog has for a specific keyword result,

the higher that page or post will rank on Google. If your post doesn't have strategic links

in the bottom one-third of your post, then you are not optimizing that post for dwell time.

This goes beyond your standard related post links

that automatically are chosen of the end of the post.

The best practice is to create unique call-to-actions

for internal or external links that answer the next question

on the journey of the Google searcher.

For example, you might have a post on the WordPress themes that produce the fastest page speed.

Someone clicks on your post after doing a Google search for the phrase fast WordPress themes.

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