More than 100 links
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Hi Everyone,
I was trawling through You Tube and came across this video from Matt Cuts from Google about the 100 links limit being removed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6g5hoBYlf0&feature=relmfu
I then logged into my SEO account as I remember a previous report we did for a competitor where they had quite a number of pages just over the 100 links, but only barely (They are highlighted in SEOmoz as a warning).
Given that google has removed this number from their guidelines and it's clear that a few over 100 isn't as bad as it used to be, is it not about time this was changed or looked at again?
Maybe even put ones like these under a new title such as recommendation rather that the alarmist Warning one unless it's ridiculously high?
I wonder if the SEOmoz team can also find out a better range figure for it instead of the outdated 100?
Regards
Alan
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IMO, if you had 100+ links into deeper pages the only time that i feel it would be appropriate is if you have 100+ main categories. If I were google and noticed that there were 100+ link on the homepage pointing to obvious pages which would be in a main category I would think that was a bit inappropriate. So yes I would go for <100 always unless I had 100+ categories. i.e. ebay, amazon, craiglists, gumtree would get away with this.
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Dr. Pete also wrote a post about this at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many that helps explain things.
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I think it is more to do with the PR flow of your internal link structure, sure you can have 500 links per page but its going to drop the overall level of PR flow. I feel 100 links per page or below is a good number to run by, but as above if you keep adding more and more links the PR flow internally will be lower. Matt Cutt's even states this in the video, which is an important point and states target the important pages.
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