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    • Web3Marketing87
      Web3Marketing87 last edited by

      Hello Again Moz community,

      This is my last Q of the day:

      I have a LOT of outbound links on the home page of www.web3.ca

      Some are to clients projects, most are to other pages on the website. Can reducing this to the core pages have a positive impact on SEO?

      Thanks,

      Anton

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      • MattAntonino
        MattAntonino last edited by

        Not bad for the homepage as far as I know - but it does seem to be bad for the internal pages you link to as any 'juice' that is passed is diluted by the amount of links you have. Internal linking & navigation is good, but don't overdo it with spammy footer links that all point to keyword-rich anchors back to your site, especially repeated ones.

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        • Asjad
          Asjad last edited by

          Hey Anton,

          As far as links pointing to other pages of website, no problems as they belongs to internal linking which is nice in deed!

          But for links pointing to other websites (Clients), please apply no-follow attribute to them as they are currently passing authority of your website and this is not an ideal thing!

          Regards

          Asjad Afzal
          COO
          Globital PTY LTD

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          • KeriMorgret
            KeriMorgret last edited by

            Dr. Pete wrote up a good post about outbound links and the reason for that notice at http://moz.com/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many that should help you get started.

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