Linking to google trusted sites

[darkdmr]

Does linking to Google trusted site give me some boost or something ?

For example a sport media site in my country put 2 text links to UEFA's official site and now its traffic from google is 80% bigger. Is it a strange coincidence or really that important to link to trusted sites in internet ???

10x in advance.

[Northie]

I've always felt that you have to give something back to the internet - if you get loads of incoming links then it's only natural to have some outgoing links.

I'm not worried about pagerank bleed. I understand true page rank, how it works and what it's for (it's nothing more than a statistical model that represents a random clicker's chance of landing on a given site)

I've tried linking out but have had no measurable results from it.

Would love to believe, though!

[breezeman]

Linking to authority sites (on the same subject as your page is) surely helps in my opinion.

[darkdmr]

I really hope it does so. Any other opinions ?