Can You Have Too Many Internal Links In a Site?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by Janejk27, May 9, 2008.

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    I have a non profit blog and am new to seo. I know links are important but I was wondering if you can put too many links within your own site? Does it look spammy to google if you have a lot of links within your website text?

    Thanks :)
     
    Janejk27, May 9, 2008 IP
  2. MailMeForLinkSpace

    MailMeForLinkSpace Banned

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    I think too many links within your own site is not good. Little link with relevan outgoing site will be better for you.
    Thank you
     
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  3. brian65

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    You need internal links within your site, not only from navigation menus but within the text of a page. Use your own judgement about the density of these links. If you think it looks odd, you've done too many.
     
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    Do you mean from an aesthetic viewpoint or for SEO purposes? Seems that the answers so far are rather opinion than having a factual basis.
     
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    My first site (four years old) has about 30 pages, with every page directly linking to every other page. I did this so that a visitor could go directly from any page to any other page in one click.

    Even though this is the maximum possible number of internal links, it has never caused a problem with the search engines. At least a dozen of the pages are ranked number one in Google for their main keyword, and have been for a long time. So I don't think you should worry about having too many internal links.
     
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  6. politician

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    I believe about 100 is the cutoff for internal links on a single page before it'll get that page in trouble. I believe I read that awhile ago on one of Google's websites. Of course, if the more content you have a single page the more internal links you probably can have too.
     
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    Thank you for all the great advise everyone. :D
     
    Janejk27, May 11, 2008 IP
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    Yes, it looks a bit spammy when you exaggerate.
    Pages with 100-200 links for example is not a good idea.
     
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    Like others have said, Google has specifically said that you should try to have less than 100 links on a page.
     
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    If the links are relevant, then you will have nothing to worry about. For example there are well known websites out there with hundreds of links on their pages... these are usually from tree menus e.t.c and have you ever thought about directories..? Some rank very well don't they?... well there ya go aslong as the links are relevenat there is nothing to worry about... However, the thing is search engines do usually cut off at 100 links so if you have 400 on one page only 100 will probably get crawled..
     
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