Too many on page links for WP blog page
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Hello,
I have set my WP blog to a page so new posts go to that page making it the blog. On a SEOmoz campaign crawl, it says there are too many links on one page, so does this mean that as I am posting my blog posts to this page, the search engines are seeing the page as one page with links instead of the blog posts?
I worry that if I continue to add more posts (which obviously I want to) the links will increase more and more, meaning that they will be discounted due to too many links.
What can I do to rectify this?
Many thanks in advance
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Ah ok I get it...sorry I am a little slow!
Thanks for your help and I will appy that method to remove the cat. links.
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No, there are indeed over 100 <a>tags on the page. I guess I wasn't very clear... sorry for the confusion.</a>
<a>You have 10 blog post summaries listed on the page. Each post summary has a few links plus there are many other nav links on the page, bringing you up over the 100 mark. If you keep adding posts that count should stay roughly the same....when you add more posts the older ones are automatically pushed through to Older Posts, keeping the 10 latest summaries on that page.</a>
<a>As I mentioned earlier, one method to reduce the</a> <a>tag count on the page would be to remove the category links. They don't seem necessary since you are only using the one blog category.</a>
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On the SEOmoz crawl, it says that the blog category has 106 links on it so I assumed that was becuaes of the page the posts are harvested on? Is that wrong as if its only 10 or so I can handle that!
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How many posts do you want to have on a page? If your count is around 10 you should be in good shape.... and you can control how many of these posts appear on your first (summary) page. It looks like you're at 10 now; any additional posts are viewed through your "view older posts" at the bottom.
Agreed though, if you're showing 15+ post starts on your list then you'll certainly be over in link count.
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Ok thanks, that sounds like a good idea. My worry is though, that as I develop the blog and add more posts, this time next year for example I will surely have at least double the amount of links? I dont see any way round it really just because I am using the page to harvest the posts?
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You have 10 stubs on the page ... that's a decent number and will keep your page's link count reasonable.
What about the idea of removing the "Filed under BLOG" links? If you're just running the single blog category, you wouldn't really need the links. That will save you 10 links right off the bat that can be reserved for links in the short descriptions.
The 100 link limit is a good rule of thumb, but you shouldn't be penalized if you're going a little over.
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Good idea...sorry! Its here.
Thanks
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Do you have a link to check out?
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