Webmaster internal links issue

[mtthompsons]

Hi All,

In webmaster > Internal links

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/internal-links?hl=en&siteUrl=

I get counts as in the image

http://imgur.com/9bO5H0f

is this logical and ok or should i work on finding why so many links and reduce them?

Thanks

Martin

[zeepartner]

yes, this could be related to the footer. though if you have over 500k pages indexed I assume you do have duplicate content issues anyway.

[mtthompsons]

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/internal-links-details?hl=en&siteUrl=

| Total links |
| /blog/top-select-9le-iphone-5 | 234,480 |

When i check i get 234,480 as count of found places. I guess we had a footer 2 months back which holds 50+ links always on top viewed posts could be thats the reason

Webmaster has not updated yet but is there some other way i can check this?

[zeepartner]

check your analytics if these category pages bring any traffic. probably you don't want to block them via robots if they reffer traffic. these category urls don't look too bad. i guess your duplication issues are somewhere else. look for dynamic elements in the url for instance.

[mtthompsons]

I have

About 548,000 results (0.11 seconds)

I can see a lot of category pages

example

http://www.Somesite.com/articles/computer-hardware

Where i can see small portions of each article as 10 in a page

I can restrict them via Robots?

Also what would the parameter be for such pages

thanks

[zeepartner]

Make a site:yourdomain.com search on google and see what urls you find that don't need to be indexed.

[mtthompsons]

Ya noindex i cannot..

Each page has recent posts and this could be the issue i guess. But any suggestions on how i can identify from where these are pulled

[zeepartner]

i don't think noindex would help much. which pages would you noindex anyhow?

to me it looks like a lot of links indeed and i would try to find the root since it looks like you have some duplication issues hidden somewhere...

[mtthompsons]

I have a related posts block that shows in every page and i guess these internal links are showing because of that

Would a Noindex and nofollow help? with these related posts block alone?

[mtthompsons]

Its a Q&A site so you have 100's of new pages created each day dynamically on a drupal website

[MoosaHemani]

In my personal opinion internal links have more to do with site architecture and if they are user friendly! Try to focus on producing better user experience on your site and keep that in mind that links should not be too many that it comes under the section of over optimization.

You number shows that you have too many pages on your website. Just see if the user experience is not shitty then you are good to go!