Will outlinking to lesser sites pull down my PR?

[Vintage]

I just read somewhere that having many outgoing links will lower my PR? Is that because Google might think it's a banner farm or full of spam?

[SpaceBOT]

Any outgoing links will lower your link-power. It won't lower your pagerank per se... plus, forget about pagerank.. they are no longer important.. haven't been for more than a year now...

[David Tan]

don't have more than a hundred outgoing links, unless your site has a good reason for it and is established.

[Vintage]

What about blogs who link to the source on every post? Their link power must be dismal.

[trainsem]

You will only lower your rankings if you link to off-topic sites. You can link to a million sites if you want, but each destination will get 1/1,000,000 of a vote, so not useful to them.

There is no such thing as PageRank leakage - it is a loose expression used to convey the above.

Your PR is based on who and how many link to you. A million off-topic links won't do you much good but ten on-topic sites with good PR will help to raise yours.

[Niche]

Originally Posted by Vintage

I just read somewhere that having many outgoing links will lower my PR? Is that because Google might think it's a banner farm or full of spam?

Just use the no follow attribute