Hi, I have a link directory up and running right now however all of my links are currently on one page I read somewhere outside of this forum that if you have more than 25 links on 1 page google will lower your page ranking. What are your thoughts on this.
I don't know where you read that but it's incorrect. Mind you, if you have that many links on a single page, the value of PR passed to nay of those pages is going to be extremely small. It's not going to change the PR or ranking of the page containing the links, though.
hmm, when you think about it logically I'am guessing that your are right since the proccess of the search engine raising my PR is dependent on the number of sites that my link is on and not the number of links on my site. The Page that has all the links on it will I guess like you said the links page will have a much lower page rank however it won't be a serious problem since I'am simple adding their link to my page like promised. The one downside is that the more pages you have for links also means the more pages you will have containing your website name.
That's not what I said. The value of a link to another page (PR value passed) is approximately equal to the PR of that page divided by the number of outgoing links (more specifically it's a percentage of the PR of the original page but ignore that for now). So let's say you start with a links page that is PR5. If you have 5 outgoing links, each of those links will pass PR1 to the target (technically 0.85 but ignore that for purposes of this example). If there are 10 outgoing links, each of the targets gets only 0.5 passed; with 20 links, only .25 is passed; with 50 links, only 0.1; etc., etc. The page containing all those links, however, remains PR5.
ok, but in the end my home domain will still recieve just as many clicks as it would recieve even if I were to divide up all the links onto seperate link pages, Right. Currently I have almost 600 links on my link page lol.
ok but if I do have more than 100 links on a page will google ban my domain or lower my domain ranking based on those findings ?
There are two dangers to you that I can envision: 1. Google may see your page as some sort of link farm and penalize you for that reason... or they might spider only the first 100 links and not the remaining 500. 2. I assume these are reciprocal pages to other people's pages, placed there because of reciprocal link requirements. If I were one of those people and checked gthe location of your link back to me (which I would guess most people who worry about reciprocal linking would do), I'd drop the link to your site in a flash and warn anyone else I knew not to link to you. Either way, it's bad practice.
I agree with everything that Minstrel has pointed out so far. If I'm looking for link partners or asked to link to a site that already has 100's of links on a link page...forget it. I don't Google is going to think highly of the page as well, I'd definitely try and split those links up onto different pages or create a directory. Allen
Can you suggest any software script I could use to split the links into different pages, right now it would honestly be a giant hasle, to do it by hand.