Comments on: How many links per page?

By: HiTman77

HiTman77 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:32:27 +0000

Great post thanks for all the comments too. I have been wondering about this subject for some time, specifically with regards to user sitemaps (as opposed to XML sitemaps) I have read the “SEO” rants about splitting up the sitemap page and too steer PR but the whole process still seems contrived to me.

Now from a purely webmastery perspective I think in some cases it’s perfectly “reasonable” outside of Googles recommendations on links to post an html page with 1k up links. High speed web, mootools and a bunch of ajaxy coolness permit webmasters to be quite creative in presenting large link lists in a userfriendly happy manner.

Although in respect to a “sitemap” it’s quite a tricky tradeoff. I have high traffic sites that users generally land on the home page to complete their CTA and if they want to drill in, they want to do it quick and easy. Global navigation 2 the sitemap page faciltates this nicely, splitting out to 50x SEO sitemaps does not. ok ok rel no follow an no index, steer the bots is hack a solution? but I think G bot should be smart enough to identify a “sitemap” page and exempt it from the spammy region of the nether index. Or at least not let it effect the rest of the sites content goodness.

It’s just my view, perhaps unfounded, maybe a thought to ponder.

By: raj

raj — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:42:02 +0000

a person who is adding more than 100 links on a page might be creating a directory or might not know all about page rank and yes i do have seen pages with good page rank & many many links. How about a new post on the topic of usefulness of directories?

By: Hua Chen

Hua Chen — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:18:06 +0000

In my option, too much links on a page is not good to the users. So, 100 links on a page is already a big number.

By: Play it your game

Play it your game — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:57:15 +0000

If my web page had a random link to another page (a flash game will refer to another flash game), what is going to happen?

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:37:15 +0000

Hey Matt

Very informative post. I’d been wondering about this same question for a few days – I a relative newcomer on onling stuff.

What was interesting to me was the dilution of PR due to the number of outbound links. I also came across this interesting post on the calculation of page rank by Bob Wakfer. Not sure I understand it fully though.
His calcs don’t seem to mention dilution of page rank but I guess you’d take his calc and divide it by 100 to get the page rank deliverd by an outbound link.

By: Kunjan

Kunjan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:52:39 +0000

Hi, matt
I wanted to ask that…Is it good and safe SEO if I put 4-5 Backlinks in one blog post having around 400 words? All 4-5 backlinks are pointing to my 1 website only.
Does google will count all 4-5 backlinks??

By: brekeke

brekeke — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:11:47 +0000

is there any consensus on the question whether it is good or bad to have dense inside linking (relative to the site size, not just the absolute number per page) within your website (or across multiple websites) and what internal linking structure is good? (if I imagine a site as a tree graph, then is it better to link along the edges of the tree (plus maybe to the root from every page) or should I make the linking structure much more dense (say adding several times more inner links to the tree structure that wouldn't just go along the edges)?) for example, for my emerging language learning site, I am considering whether to link from all the verbs in the vocabulary section to their conjugation, and back from the conjugated verbs to the vocabulary sections that contain them etc. does it do any good/harm to seo? thanks.

By: SEO SG

SEO SG — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:36:09 +0000

I feel it’s quite silly to want to determine “how many links a page can have” as in my earlier comment, any publisher out there is free to do what he/she wants on their site, and if a user finds the site un-user friendly, he/she will not cast his/her vote (by closing the browser or not visiting the site again).

By: Arthur Johnstone

Arthur Johnstone — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:51:43 +0000

Hello Matt, I am rather a novice in linking matters and would be grateful if you could answer a question closely related to the topic of how many links per page. I have a site for camping in France which is a camping guide really, and I have been offered a sitewide link from another similar but non competing site. Is there any harm in a site wide link, and could either site be penalised by Google or other SE's?

By: Mateusz

Mateusz — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:33:46 +0000

hi,
good question Vaibhav. Everythings whats good for human is ok and this should be the sum up. Lets say at universities’ pages with jobs or general links sections. There are sometimes hundreds of external links, they are usefull and point students places which are necessery for them. The web sites are going well.