Is the "Too Many Links" metric a blunt instrument?
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The SEO Moz crawl diagnostics suggest that we have too many on-page links on several pages including on our homepage.
How does your system determine when a page has too many links. It looks like when a page as more than 100 links it’s too many. Should the system take into account the page authority, domain authority, depth of page or other metrics?
In addition, no-follow links are being included. As these are dropped from Google’s link graph, does it matter if we have too many? For example, we could have 200 links, 120 of which are no follow. Your tools would tell us we have too many links.
Feedback appreciated.
Donal
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The 100 link mark is no longer a valid milestone.
You can see the Matt Cutts webmastertool video on this subject at : http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp#p/u/4/l6g5hoBYlf0
Hope it helps.
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Yeah it would seem to be a flat over or under 100 links tool.
I don't think it even takes into account the nofollow links (as in, they still count as a link) as they still reduces your PR flow - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-consolidation-the-new-pagerank-sculpting
It's not really a metric that you should worry too much about unless you're going overboard with it but here's some of the underlying reasoning behind it - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-many-links-per-page/
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I don't think that the SEOmoz tool takes into account page/domain authority when reporting the "too many links" issue at the moment. I wouldn't stress over seeing the "too many links" warning though, especially if you know what you're doing.
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