link juice<\/a>” to their websites.<\/p>\nLink juice is the PageRank you pass along from your site to the site you link to. And if you have more links away from your site than coming to it, you lose street cred with Google in the form of lower search results for your target keywords.<\/p>\n
But it gets worse!<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen you link out to your suppliers you risk losing business. You risk giving away the hard-earned prospect that just found your site because each of your suppliers has a “find a local contractor” or “locate a dealer near you”.<\/p>\n
It would feel like a gut punch if you knew prospects found your competition from your own site, but it has probably already happened and you don’t even know it. So my suggestion to you is remove your supplier page, or at least remove the links to their sites and make the page a lot less prominent.<\/p>\n
Even if you are receiving co-op funding you shouldn’t be willing to risk losing a prospect since the lifetime value of that prospect could be much more than whatever few pennies your supplier is paying you for the link on your site.<\/p>\n
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