more than 100 links on one page ??

according to google's Design and content guidelines:
Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).

But if i see the sitemap of apple dot com, the number is much more than
100 and the pagerank is 10.so what should i conclude:

may be your page has links more than 100, google has no objections to it ?can i also do the same ?
I need suggestions and clarifications !
Thanks !

 

The sitemap is a special page I think. Anyway, google dosn't count link on pages with more than 100 links, and if those are for link exchange, no webmaster will accept a link on those pages.

 

But there arent out bound links, anyway Google encourages sitemaps and I believe that you cant really get a penatly to link to your own site, even if you do have lots of pages.

 

Sitemap is very much different from the pages of your site. Google will come to know about your site via sitemap only.

 

Sitemap is also part of a site. think that no probs on that.

 

That's the point ! i understand now that sitemap is a special page and in that ur linking to your own pages - that's fine !
And if its for link exchange, it should be avoided.
But if ur having any other page with loads of links, then it must come on separate pages !

But still can i distribute the sitemap page on 2 - 3 pages ? what do u say ?

 

Reading Google's Webmaster Help Center:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

 

That's not really true. If you have a tightly themed website with a good linking structure, google should find every page on your website through the linking structure. The sitemap helps, but I had a client with over 1,000 pages get the entire website indexed, even though they never implemented a sitemap.

Sitemap helps for sure, but is not strictly necessary if you have good linking structure.

M

 

that's what i said buddy. I also have sites over 2 lakh pages crawled in google with no sitemap.

 

Thanks to all !

 

sitemap is a page where u give the links of all ur internal pages of ur website... so it is page where google doesnot place its 100 limit on... bco if i site has got more than 100 pages then sureyl it shld give all the links..

u can also go in for more than 100 links on ur sitemap page...