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100 + links on a scrolling page
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Can you add more than 100 links on your webpage If you have a webpage that adds more content from a database as a visitor scrolls down the page.
If you look at the page source the 100 + links do not show up, only the first 20 links. As you scroll down it adds more content and links to the bottom of the page so its a continuos flowing page if you keep scrolling down.
Just wanted to know how the 100 links maximum fits into this scenario ?
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Everyone says don't dilute the PR, but what is the approximate numbers?
As for now we have an e-commerce site, with many products. We want our page to be easy slide (as on Facebook scroll down), and it would put like 5000+ links on one page, would this dilute?
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Have a look at this article from matt Cutts
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-many-links-per-page/
The original reason for the 100 link recommendation was due to technical limitations but this is no longer the case, 100 is still a general rule of thumb though. There are certainly times when you need to have more than 100 links, look at Google Plus for instance where the do what you describe above and load further content as the user scrolls down.
Keep in mind though that the amount of value each link can pass on depends on the total number of links on your page so you still wouldn't want to go crazy and link to every page on your website from each page. You mention that all links will not be included in the source code though so you shouldn't have the problem of over diluting the link value. Just make sure that all the links that appear when scrolling are included in a sitemap so they can be crawled.
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Google (Matt Cutts) talks about this and saying that there is no set number. He does say that you want to be careful not to make it spammy. I had a similar issue that hit me with Panda and since then I have fixed the issue. I believe that link placement is important and how you place them on your page effects this as well.
For instance
Link1
Link2
Link3
Link4
Link5
is better than
link1,link2,link3,link4,link5
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