Leading on from the interesting 'sorting' thread, I believe this is connected. I list 5 links and 5 featured links per category, and sort by date - newest at the top. My reasons are that every submission receives premium position for a short period of time and hopefully will be encouraged to use the featured option if they wish to pay to stay at the top for a further 6 months.
I use 50. Why? - * It prevents there being 100 pages to just one category. * It prevents the user having to scroll through too many pages (yes I actually care about the users that genuinely browse through my site!) * It prevents there being too many outgoing links on a page * It allows me to fire off a new sub category when theres more than 2 pages * It retains the on page SEO benefits of that category - so that category is not duplicated across too many sub pages reflecting the same titles etc. * It prevents there being too much code compared with text, and prevents there being too little text compared with code (assuming a lower number is used) Hows that?
I have seen you post about this before Mike and it sounds plausible that such an equation would be used by SEs. Do you have a link to anything authorative about this?
Depends what you call authorative. I first came across it three years ago when I learnt about SEO. Read it here, quite useful - http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/code-to-text-ratio/ EDIT : Here's another - http://streamlinemarketing.co.uk/seoblog/what-is-code-to-text-ratio/
I would say that anywhere between 10 and 25 outgoing links it's better. Bear in mind to add quite a bit of text on the page as well (links description in this case or any other relevant text, articles, etc...) Google said "Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100)." This includes both internal and external links. It is believed (not proved) that the search engines may have problems indexing a large number of links on every page. Here is the link to Google Guidelines - check the last bit under "Design and content guidelines" Hope this helps Thanks
No reason, but thats why many advertisers look for. Google says <100 http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769
We use 20 per page and here's the method to our madness. First, it helps avoid a long page of results, people don't like to scroll miles down a page. Second, its hoped that we don't offer more than 20 results even if we could. Look at our SEO Firms results, there's 450 of them there, would people visit the next page and then the next. One thing I'd like to know is does the more links you have on any given page make any difference? We're re-populating and was going to limit to 20 max even if we had 50 or more in our database, would that be a bad thing?
Jamie, while you have 20 listings on that page, you actually have a total of 50 links on it, both internal and external. That's fairly good as it's about half the number Google advises . Personally I believe the more links you have on any given page makes a (-) difference not only in terms of juice flow, but in terms of relevance, strength of the given page and probably trust rank... Hope this helps Dan