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website has too many footer links?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Mechanical, Nov 29, 2015.

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    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?
     
    Mechanical, Nov 29, 2015 IP
  2. LinkGenie

    LinkGenie Active Member

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    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.
     
    LinkGenie, Nov 29, 2015 IP
  3. Prince SEO

    Prince SEO Member

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    firstly check your Text/HTML ratio if it's above 50% then its ok does not matter how many links u have in footer...
    www.winxdesigner.com
     
    Prince SEO, Dec 2, 2015 IP
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    karen9999 Active Member

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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.
     
    karen9999, Dec 2, 2015 IP
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    adseo Greenhorn

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    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
     
    adseo, Dec 3, 2015 IP
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    ulterios Well-Known Member

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    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.
     
    ulterios, Dec 3, 2015 IP
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    Snoopy240 Well-Known Member

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    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:
     
    Snoopy240, Dec 3, 2015 IP
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    webdev007 Active Member

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    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.
     
    webdev007, Dec 3, 2015 IP
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    Jim4767 Prominent Member

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    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.
     
    Jim4767, Dec 11, 2015 IP
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    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
     
    Shahidul Islam Rakib, Dec 15, 2015 IP
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    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    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.
     
    dcristo, Dec 15, 2015 IP
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    I would not recommend to have more than 100 links on a page.
     
    shawn_michaels, Dec 15, 2015 IP
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    too much links in footer try to decrease and make it 20 to 15
     
    drues1986, Dec 15, 2015 IP
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    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    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.
     
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    dcristo, Dec 15, 2015 IP
  15. Rabiul Hasan

    Rabiul Hasan Peon

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    Hello ( Again Welcome ) Your thinking is very Important & most valuable about ur topic.
     
    Rabiul Hasan, Dec 15, 2015 IP
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    Having too many outgoing links are not helpful to your website so you should remove all these links.
     
    rf-harris, Dec 15, 2015 IP
  17. Jason Blanchard

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    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."
     
    Jason Blanchard, Feb 8, 2016 IP
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    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.
     
    Patricia Ann Lee, Feb 8, 2016 IP
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    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.
     
    Jason Blanchard, Feb 25, 2016 IP
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    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.
     
    JoeLumbergh, Feb 26, 2016 IP