Low hanging fruits are usually common errors/mistakes someone made. So for starters I would do the following thing:

Register with Google's webmaster tools.

Crawl your site with xenu's link sleuth (google it, its freeware).

• Look for 404s -> fix them
• Have a look at all titles of  you page: are they unique, short and do they have the important keyword in the beginning.
• Look at the depth of your page. Anything above 4 should be looked at.
• See whether all pages send the right status code (404, 200) and the right charset
• Analyze one page with Google's Pagespeed Browser Plugin, fix whatever comes up

I see it this way: if the topic is about your webpage and you can add something valuable to the discussion then go for it, but see it as a way to build an audience and not so much links.

Even if the links are nofollowed or not indexed at all: nofollow-links are essential to a "natural" link profile, as most websites do have a number of nofollowed links (and even links from noindexed pages, which google crawls and "sees" nevertheless).

So you have links to search results on your page and those links are followed and indexed by google. LInking to a search result is not a bad thing per se. Just make sure, that the indexed pages are not to similar (i.e. duplicate content).

An example:

if the indexed page for "widget" (domain.tld/search/widget) and the indexed page for "widgets" (domain.tld/search/widgets) are similar or nearly similar they might be considered duplicate content, resulting in none of them ranking. One way to test this is to use d/c checker or the seomoz campaign. You want at least 20% difference in any combination of pages.

If you manually set these links you might want to check whether the results are different enough. If you don't want these pages to be indexed at all just "follow, noindex" them.

Besides that it's not a problem.

Hi michelleh,

to what pages specifically are you linking? Google results like http://www.google.com/search?q=query ? Pages on other domains? could you please give some more information?

Adding to Ryans post:
The amount of links is one thing to consider, but also consider the depth of your site, that is: how many clicks does it take to reach any given page. Use a crawler like Xenus link sleuth and crawl your site. You should look into anything over 4 or 5, depending on the amount of pages.

For an ecommerce site i wouldn't worry about the 100 links per page warning, but 200 visible links are too much. Best thing to do is too look at every object of a page (links, images, buttons, badeges etc.) and ask yourself whether it is really necessary or dead weight. Reduce as much as possible.

Nearly forgot to ask you: are you using some sort of social media widget? These little buggers sometimes contain links to tons of sites, thus increasing link count. There used to be an addon for firefox called link grab! which printed out a list of all links on a page.

I see it this way: if the topic is about your webpage and you can add something valuable to the discussion then go for it, but see it as a way to build an audience and not so much links.

Even if the links are nofollowed or not indexed at all: nofollow-links are essential to a "natural" link profile, as most websites do have a number of nofollowed links (and even links from noindexed pages, which google crawls and "sees" nevertheless).

Low hanging fruits are usually common errors/mistakes someone made. So for starters I would do the following thing:

Register with Google's webmaster tools.

Crawl your site with xenu's link sleuth (google it, its freeware).

• Look for 404s -> fix them
• Have a look at all titles of  you page: are they unique, short and do they have the important keyword in the beginning.
• Look at the depth of your page. Anything above 4 should be looked at.
• See whether all pages send the right status code (404, 200) and the right charset
• Analyze one page with Google's Pagespeed Browser Plugin, fix whatever comes up

Adding to Ryans post:
The amount of links is one thing to consider, but also consider the depth of your site, that is: how many clicks does it take to reach any given page. Use a crawler like Xenus link sleuth and crawl your site. You should look into anything over 4 or 5, depending on the amount of pages.

For an ecommerce site i wouldn't worry about the 100 links per page warning, but 200 visible links are too much. Best thing to do is too look at every object of a page (links, images, buttons, badeges etc.) and ask yourself whether it is really necessary or dead weight. Reduce as much as possible.

Nearly forgot to ask you: are you using some sort of social media widget? These little buggers sometimes contain links to tons of sites, thus increasing link count. There used to be an addon for firefox called link grab! which printed out a list of all links on a page.