 Hi, everyone, and welcome to the first episode of Ask Google Webmasters, a video series where we aim to answer short questions from webmasters, publishers, or SEOs about Google Search and their website. Today's question comes from Techie, and it is, does linking to other websites help or hurt SEO? Well, linking to other websites is a great way to provide value to your users. Oftentimes, links help users to find out more, to check out your sources, and to better understand how your content is relevant to the questions that they have. I would watch out for a few types of links, though. In particular, if you're linking out to a site because of an arrangement, like you link to me and I'll link to you, or because it's an advertisement, or if it's being done in your site's comments, and you're not really sure how good those links are. In all of these situations, your pages aren't linking out because you think the other page is a great match for users. For these kinds of links, we recommend using the rel nofollow link attribute. I added a link with more information on that below in the description. In the most common cases, however, if you're linking out naturally from your content to other sites that offer additional value and more context, then that's fine. And there's nothing special that you need to do. Is there something else we can answer for you in a short video form? Please send your questions to us using the Ask Google Webmasters hashtag on Twitter so that we can include them in one of the future videos. To stay in the loop, make sure to subscribe to the channel.