To many links on a single page Error

[activitysuper]

I've seen it a few times where you should have less then 100 links per page to help crawling unless your a massively authoritative website.

But what happens when your a large ecommerce website with categories and sub categories, you could have a category called 'computers' with a drop down list containing lots of sub cat links.

Whats the solution to this?

Cheers

[Alex-Harford]

I'm not an expert on this, but I know the 100 links thing doesn't matter anywhere near as much as it used to, or I'm not sure if it ever did in terms of being penalised. I think it was just a guideline that said if a page had more than 100 links, Google might not crawl them all, or PageRank might not be passed to anything over the 101st link...something like that. Google's crawling is a lot more sophisticated now, so as long as your site doesn't look like a link-farm I think you'll be fine.

I haven't read it yet, but I've just found this, it looks like it'll help: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

[LushDuck]

Sorry I cant offer you an answer but I also have the same issue, my report is reporting to many links on a page but I am not sure how to reduce this number due to categories - sub cats and the amount of products listed on the page.

Would be very interested to hear of a work around for this1

Thanks

Daniel