Too Many On-Page Links

[iivgi]

Hi, I did a SEOmoz campaign and got results today, One of the results is Too "Many On-Page Links" when i am drilling down, i see that that's include inside links. for example, i sale food, i have my main department window - inside i have 30 products - each product is linked to a detailed page about the product. so automatically i have 30 links - not including all the others in this page, and i easily get over 100 and even sometimes 200 is this a big issue? does it damages my SEO? If yes, is there a way to write the HTML in a way that internal links like that wont be counted? Thank you SEOWiseUs

[Andy.Drinkwater]

I tend to look at the number of links on a page and not only look at it from what Google might think, but how does it work from a usability point of view?

Are visitors easily able to navigate around the pages and site? Are links clear and concise? Do they all make sense?

If I come up with the answer "no", then I would be wanting to do something about it.

1000 links on a page is a lot and I would honestly be trying to trim this right down - are 1000 links all necessary? Perhaps looking at a new navigation structure would help.

Andy

[BenjyH]

My site menu means I have something like 1000 on page links

Theoretically Google will recognise that it's for navigation?

I'm interested in knowing how a big a deal people think this is & what you can actually do about short of having flash menu's.

[smarties954]

Have more than a 100 links on the page is not perfect but still ok in many cases as long as it's relevant for the user.

Here is a video of Matt Cutts answering this questions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6g5hoBYlf0

But as the video says, keep in mind that each link will dillute your pagerank.

I thought I read recently that google increased the amount of links recommended per page to 250 but I might be wrong.