Wordpress #comment links?
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We just started our trial account and have the results from our first Moz Pro Site Crawl. It's showing that we have a large portion of our pages have 'Too Many Links' and I'm trying to determine exactly what this means and how to fix it. The article referenced is from 2011 and doesn't fully address what I'm looking for. Here are a few questions:
1. Can we lower the 'link count' by adding a 'no follow' or does too many links, count links regardless? The question being, is the only way to solve this by removing links or are their no follow or no index options that will prevent us from having this issue moving forward?
2. Comment Links: Our site is in Wordpress and I just recognized that each of the comment links are followed: https://screencast.com/t/b0CIKVafWw. These aren't links from our users, rather these are links within Wordpress and are structured like this: https://mysite.com/blog-post/#comment-6970. From my screenshot you can see they are highlighted as 'followed links'. Is there a setting within Wordpress to turn this off or is there another option I should consider? Should we just make these no index, no follow links? Will that solve the 'Too many links' problem?
I searched through the Q&A's and couldn't find an answer directly to my question. Most were around people leaving links in the comments section, which isn't what I'm looking for. Thank you for any help you can provide.
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Yes, they are being counted towards that number.
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Thanks Martijn! To clarify a bit more. We have some posts with 100+ comments. According to the Moz toolbar they are highlighting as followed links like this: https://screencast.com/t/b0CIKVafWw. Are these #comment links being counted towards the 'Too Many Links' issue with the Moz Crawl? Is there a way to add a nofollow to these links and would that be recommended?
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Hi,
Usually the too many links issues won't impact your SEO that much. It's more of a warning that you should take into consideration. In your case the comments are not really separate links as they're using hashes. So they're not going to too many other pages on your site.
Your option 1 is not really going to help that much. Probably using nofollow would have the biggest impact, but then you would still have a lot of links on your page. Best would be to look at how many links you have right now to get a better understanding of what you could do with them: if that's removing them or not.
Martijn.
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