Hi guys, looking for some ideas.. If you have a large number of links that point to pages on your own site will google penalize for this the same way as if the links were pointing to different sites? Eg. http://www.solutionlibrary.com/business/finance/ At the top of the page we have a short nav thats meant to be used by users, at the bottom we have a larger version with every single page set available under a topic. The idea behind this is to make it easier on search engines to find all the available content without having to spider 40 levels of links. We regularly add new content which is appended to the list, so it's very important that last pages are easy to find when spiders visit. I'm starting to think that having so many links isn't that great and trying to figure out a good way to brake them down into some kind of a "topic sitemap". The idea would be to have 1 topic sitemap link on each of the topic pages ( /business/finance/pg10 ...), then somehow brake them down even further so each page doesn't have 600 links but maybe 20-30. So ..do you guys think it's worth spending time on setting up this topic sitemap or should we just leave it as is. Thanks!
We have the same issue with the breadcrumb nav. On our front page we have make this 1-2-3-4-5 and the second page 1-2---------45 This seems to have helped with the SE crawl but its more guess work than anythink. Anyone else got any ideas?
This shouldn't be a problem, but you'd both be better off creating a Site Map which links to every page, and then only have internal links which are relevant. Cryo.
Like Cryogenius pointed out, use a site map for the purpose. I doubt you'll get penalized for internal links, but they won't help your link building either. Warkot