To Many Links On Page Problem
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Hello
My Moz report is showing I have an error for too many links on my sitemap and blog.
The links on both pages are relevant and I'm not sure if this has to be sorted out, as I would have thought Google would expect sitemaps and blogs to have lots of links. If I were to reduce the number of links how much of a positive affect would it have on my site?
If any of you feel it is best practice to reduce number of links on these particular pages, do you have any suggestions on how I can tackle this?
http://www.dradept.com/blog.php
http://www.dradept.com/sitemap.php
Thank you
Christina
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We found we actually had 6 links into each individual blog within the blog page. We corrected this and the 'too many links' in the error report disappeared! YAY
We also worked a way around the number of links on our sitemap which also corrected this error.
Correcting both issues has had a positive impact on our website.
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Thanks Keri,
I have read that article a number of times and stick to the fewer than 100 links per page.
I'm just concerned about our sitemap and blog because I can't think of a way to cut down the amount of links on them and whether this will have a negative affect on my entire website.
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Rel no follow comes in handy when appropriate.
In this case we felt it was appropriate, as on one page 'the blog' there were several links to the same article (duplicate links). User's can follow those links but we've asked Google to only follow one of those links to each article.
As you have said you aren't sure what happens to duplicate links, neither do we and this will be an interesting test.
If I see any negative affects this will be reversed.
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Dr. Pete also wrote about this warning at http://moz.com/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many.
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However, as you have highlighted this we are going to place a rel no follow in all links other than the title.
No!! don't ever no follow internal links ever! you are just throwing out google juice. (not sure what happens if they are duplicate links)
Also this will not stop seomoz giving you a too many links warning. But its only a warning, that it might be a bad idea, but I would not be worried if I were you
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Thank you for your response Oleg it was very helpful.
The number of links to one article in the blog was for better user experience as we have found people like to click on titles, pictures and read more.
However, as you have highlighted this we are going to place a rel no follow in all links other than the title.
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You shouldn't worry about it. Honestly doesn't even seem like you have a lot of links on those pages.
In fact, I'm pretty sure you get that message on the your blog because you link to each post 6 times (title, image, read about text, read more, comment count x2). Sitemap will naturally have many links.
The "too many links" would only really affect your rankings if you have a lot of irrelevant external links or you link to every page on your site from every page. Either of these would siphon you link authority away from the pages you want to rank.
Having many links on just two pages on your site is no big deal and nothing to worry about.
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