website has too many footer links?

Are There any SEO problems if a website has too many footer links? I have 70 links in my site footer, does it matter in SEO . should I just keep some links on footer and move them into article content instead? any advice?

 

It depends on overall website content level. Also if those links helps to increase user-friendliness of your website, it won't be a problem.

 

firstly check your Text/HTML ratio if it's above 50% then its ok does not matter how many links u have in footer...
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Diversify your footer links. This will create relevancy between your client site and your own. Do not use too general terms for your text links.

 

i suggest to put only 50 maximum links in your website footer and total no more then 100 links in your single html page. if you do not so google will down your page quality score and you can not rank well in search engine

 

Having 70 links is a lot! I personally wouldn't want anything near that in any of my sites pages, just to play it safe.

I think the thing that is more important is what are those links to? If they are what Google and the other SE's consider "Spammy", then they are definitely going to hurt your site.

 

The number of links you have on a page - has to be well balanced with the amount of content (text) you have on the page.

But I would not recommend to have more than 100 links on a page.

This is just to be safe.

You can learn more from Matt Cutts - who works at Google. Watch his video on this topic:

 

You can have any number of links per page (even some wiki pages have hundreds of links per post) but keeping the number low is recommended as most search engines only pick the first 100 for crawling.

 

The search engines are actively looking for "footer spam." I can hardly imagine any compelling website design reason for having 70 links in your footer.

 

70 links in footer is huge! I think, you should use them in articles or somewhere else in your website. I hardly notice a website with so many footers. This is not a good practice for SEO

 

This is old advice. Google has no problem with crawling more than 100 links on a page. But like Jim alluded to, you want to avoid footer spam. If all these links are for SEO and visitors aren't clicking on them, it could be considered spammy.

 

I would not recommend to have more than 100 links on a page.

 

too much links in footer try to decrease and make it 20 to 15

 

Based on what? I have more than 300 links on the homepage for one of my sites, and it ranks on the first page of google for its primary keyword. What you're suggesting is something Matt Cutts mentioned years ago due to resource limitations back then, but it's no longer relevant today.

 

Hello ( Again Welcome ) Your thinking is very Important & most valuable about ur topic.

 

Having too many outgoing links are not helpful to your website so you should remove all these links.

 

According to Google Ranking Factors, "It's been made very clear that links tucked into the footer of a site don't carry the same weight as those in an editorial context. It's also true that when Google first began speaking about their actions against paid link schemes, the practice of spamming site footers with dozens of paid external links was widespread, and therefore too many external footer links can draw that sort of penalty."

 

It will help if you analyze these links first, see if all of it are necessary to be put on the footer.
Or, if it the links are already on the header part, then do not put it on the footer.
Also, as much as possible lessen the navigation. Only put the most important ones.

 

According to Northcutt's Ranking Factors, it's been made very clear that links tucked into the footer of a site don't carry the same weight as those in an editorial context. It's also true that when Google first began speaking about their actions against paid link schemes, the practice of spamming site footers with dozens of paid external links was widespread, and therefore too many external footer links can draw that sort of penalty.

 

Remember that if you have this many outgoing links on every page (the footer is on every page), then you're internal linking won't carry as much weight.