100 links on one page
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we're recommended 100 links or less on one page. is the 100 links including header and footer links?
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Dr. Pete also wrote a good post about this at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many.
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Links per page - http://www.seomoz.org/q/max-of-recommended-links-per-page
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And also remember that you will want your more important links towards the top. And I would keep your links to a minimum per page. It all depends on what you are doing.
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Where does this recommendation come from?
Years ago search engine crawlers were limited to 100 links per page. Those limitations were based on the technology in use at the time and are no longer in place.
Otherwise, Heather is correct. All links on a page, including the header and footer, would be used to compute the total number of links on a page.
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As the header and footer make up part of the page, then yes these links would be included.
However, if you're saying no more than 100 external/outbound links are recommended and there are no external links in your header and footer, just internal links, then they wouldn't be included.
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