Originally Posted by icymelon

no it wont hurt. 12 is a good number for a new site. usually the best thing to do is add more quality content to the site as it moves up and slowly gradually add more inbounds as you add. You might want to put up a new page and get a few inbounds to that new page. that can also help. but do it at random. one outbound link is fine. your allowed to link to other quality sites. if its duplicate content then I would be concerned. still trying to figure out the panda. If you added an outbound and saw your rank drop it could one of 20 other reasons. with google it's not always that cut and dry. thats my opinion.