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Is there a suggested limit to the amount of links on a sitemap?
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Currently, I have an error on my moz dashboard indicating there are too many links on one of my pages. That page is the sitemap. It was my understanding all internal pages should be linked to the sitemap.
Can any mozzers help clarify the best practice here?
Thanks,
Clayton
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Your html sitemap is best for website visitors, so best practice is to list the most important sections/pages. Google can use your html sitemap page to crawl the rest of your site as long as the structure can be followed.
If you have lots of pages, then it's best to us an xml sitemap to submit through Google Webmaster. Once your xml sitemap is in the root directory of your website, you can also let search engines know its location through your robots.txt file like this:
User-agent: * Sitemap: http://www.SomeDomain.com/sitemap.xml
If your site changes over time, it's a good idea to create fresh sitemaps - just set reminders for yourself in a calendar.
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That makes sense. Thanks.
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Thanks for the help BrewSEO, Darin, and Zora.
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I believe he is referring to an actual site map html page, not an XML file to submit to Google.
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Don't worry about it. The "too many links" message is based on Google's suggestion to have less than 100 links per-page. Obviously site-maps are going to be an exception to this rule, and with good reason. You are fine.
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The answer is "technically" 50,000.
However, the size for sitemap matters too (no bigger than 50MB).
If you have more than these numbers allow for in Google's Guidelines then you break them up and have multiple sitemaps on your site.
Here is Google's Guidelines on Sitemaps:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=183668
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