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Hi Vinnie,

Google only counts the first link in regards to Anchor text - although there appear to be ways around this if you care to do so, but for the average person, yes, only the first link:

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/3-ways-to-avoid-the-first-link-counts-rule

So we've looked at the source code and realized that for each product we link to the product page in multiple ways - from the product image, product title and price. So we have three internal links to the same page from each product listing, which is being counted by the SEOMoz crawler as hundreds of links on each page.

But in terms of the Googlebot, is this as egregious as having hundreds of links to different pages or does it not matter as much?

Hi,

We ran a site diagnostic and it came back with thousands of pages that have more than 100 internal links on a page; however, the actual number of links on those pages seems to be far less than what was reported. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Phil

UPDATE:

So we've looked at the source code and realized that for each product we link to the product page in multiple ways - from the product image, product title and price. So we have three internal links to the same page from each product listing, which is being counted by the SEOMoz crawler as hundreds of links on each page.

But in terms of the Googlebot, is this as egregious as having hundreds of links to different pages or does it not matter as much?

Hi,

We ran a site diagnostic and it came back with thousands of pages that have more than 100 internal links on a page; however, the actual number of links on those pages seems to be far less than what was reported. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Phil

UPDATE:

So we've looked at the source code and realized that for each product we link to the product page in multiple ways - from the product image, product title and price. So we have three internal links to the same page from each product listing, which is being counted by the SEOMoz crawler as hundreds of links on each page.

But in terms of the Googlebot, is this as egregious as having hundreds of links to different pages or does it not matter as much?

So we've looked at the source code and realized that for each product we link to the product page in multiple ways - from the product image, product title and price. So we have three internal links to the same page from each product listing, which is being counted by the SEOMoz crawler as hundreds of links on each page.

But in terms of the Googlebot, is this as egregious as having hundreds of links to different pages or does it not matter as much?