I am currently working on a website http://www.advancednutrients.com/hydroponics/ , it has many links on the home page. Does having these many links on homepage affect the page rank of my site?? Also will Google penalize me and decrease my site ranking? Thanks in Advance, looking forward to your help...
Almost all of those are internal links. I don't think that will have any adverse effect. Nice artistic site design by the way!
It depends on the quality of backlinks coming to your site... Google may issue a warning to your website if these links are unnatural. But If I were you, I wouldn’t have bothered about the PR of my website, rather I would focus on other metrics like SERP rankings, ROI and conversion rate.
Hello Kevin, I have gone through your website. I want to share my analysis what I got from your website: 1st of all the links in your homepage are internal links. Whatever it is internal or external but keep it under 100. Because Google used to index only about 100 kilobytes of a page. When we thought about how many links a page might reasonably have and still be under 100K, it seemed about right to recommend 100 links or so. If a page started to have more than that many links, there was a chance that the page would be so long that Google would truncate the page and wouldn’t index the entire page. These days, Google will index more than 100K of a page, but there’s still a good reason to recommend keeping to under a hundred links or so: the user experience. If you’re showing well over 100 links per page, you could be overwhelming your users and giving them a bad experience. A page might look good to you until you put on your “user hat†and see what it looks like to a new visitor. Does Google automatically consider a page spam if your page has over 100 links? No, not at all. The “100 links†recommendation is in the “Design and content†guidelines section, and it’s the Quality guidelines that contain the things that we consider web spam (stuff like hidden text, doorway pages, installing malware, etc.). Can pages with over 100 links be spammy? Sure, especially if those links are hidden or keyword-stuffed. But pages with lots of links are not automatically considered spammy by Google.
Hey thanks a lot, that was very well explained by you. do you think i need to work on the site load time.
Incoming dofollow links help you improve the site PR. but too much of them is considered spam. You can have incoming links for nofollow sites also. So basically you need to have a mix of both the links. You can refer to the post by AllenRobinson, he has very nicely explained about internal links.