Excessive Internal Links & links to same location
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Hi,
When Google is counting internal links on a page and it comes across two links to the same url, do both of the links count towards Excessive Internal Links?
The reason I ask is that on our website we allow users to navigate through the website in different ways (either by dropdown menus or side menu or through breadcrumbs); which cause some links to appear multiple times on the same page.
Any thoughts?
K.
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Internal link certainly does affect ranking like every other link.
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank
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Hi,
I don't believe that even excessive linking would hurt at all. Internal linking does not change the pages ranking. It would be a non sense for search engines to penalize the website if complex linking is needed (even if looks to be spammy).
Regards
Candin
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I would not worry about link count too much unless it looks spammy. but if they are internal links I can not see that being a problem, yes evey link is counted, only the first link passes link text relevancy but all links pass link juice.
I would make sure thet the first link on the page has the correct link text.
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