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Are Too Many Links Damaging Your Search Position?
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Rebecca Appleton (166 Posts)
Rebecca is the managing director of search engine optimization agency Dakota Digital a full-service agency offering SEO, online PR, web copywriting, media relationship management, and social media strategy. Rebecca works directly with each client to increase online visibility, brand profile, and search engine rankings. She has headed a number of international campaigns for large brands.
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Rebecca,
Good post. I’ve wondered about the effect of excessive internal links. My pages typically START with over 50 due to the links down the right hand side of my pages, which are KEY to my site.
I didn’t see any mention of nofollow in your article. I’ve heard that Google does not want us nofollow-ing internal links.
Any thoughts on that?
[...] Too many links? Remember that scene in “Amadeus,” when the king accuses Mozart of using “too many notes” in his music? Well, says Search Marketing Standard’s Rebecca Appleton, you might be using too many links, thus hurting your search position. [...]
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Thank you Rebecca, very interesting post. Any thoughts on the Google nofollow policy, both for internal links and outbound links?
[...] in “Amadeus,” when the king accuses Mozart of using “too many notes” in his music? Well, says Search Marketing Standard’s Rebecca Appleton, you might be using too many links, thus hurting your search [...]
[...] Having too many links per page will undermine ranking aspirations by infringing on the search engine’s design and content guidelines. Google starts out by recommending that links on a page are kept to a reasonable number, which they classify as below 100. http://www.searchmarketingstandard.com/search-position-damaged-links [...]
The 100 link suggestion is from Google’s content guidelines. The aim is likely to minimize the relevance of links coming from link-farms. To answer the original comment’s question about internal links, Google’s sitemap guidelines also suggest keeping an sitemap limited to 100 links or breaking the map into smaller pages. It would seem from that statement that internal links should be kept to below 100 as well.
This is a great article about keeping the links down to a minimum!
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