Will google penelize for having too many links on a sidebar?

I am link a lot of my clients websites on different blogs that I run, usually in the sidebar, will Google see them as irrelevant and devalue my blogs or my clients?

I usually only have about 20 or so but its growing rapidly. any thoughts?

 

yes, it is. You will loss PR for putting many external links on the home page.

 

Any idea how many is too many?

 

20 is a big number, don't try to add any links any more

 

short answer: yes.. Don't go crazy with links, google frowns on this because a lot of people have put massive amount of links on their site solely to try to increase their PR rather than for actual content reasons.

 

I do not think that there is a hard, fast rule on this issue. Some time ago, it was widely accepted that G would only count the first 60 or so on a page. I believe that has changed and may be at least 100 now. IMHO, 20 is not too many. I don't believe there is any negative effect other than you are passing some of you page's PR to your client's websites. I don't see that as a big deal unless you are 'hording' PR for some reason.

I do think it makes sense to make clear what the list is. For example, having a title on the list of "Some of our Clients" will show a visitor exactly what the list is. I believe this is perfectly fine.

/*tom*/

 

I think you may already know the answer.
Why do you link to them in the first place?

 

No.

Having a lot of links will make the PR weight each link as much less.

Each page has a finite amount of link juice. Every link you add to a page will dilute the link juice.

 

really to many sidewide links can affect the website page rank..

 

try to limit your links in sidebar, at 15-20 maximum

 

Less Outbound Link = More Reputation in Search Engine

 

if you have a loot of links in your site bar you can really lose you PR.
I don't recommend you to put more that 5-10 links.

 

I heard that no page should have more then about 50 - 75 external links on it.

With that, I recommend no more then 50 links on the sidebar. If you wanted to link to those other sites, create a links page and put the links there, instead of having them on the sidebar.

 

It makes sense to limit the # of links, both internal and external on a page. Link to the most important pages from your most important pages, do it logically. In my opinion, it's not logical and rather worthless to have a huge list of links on a page. Think of your visitors, do right by them and you will be doing right by Google.

 

I think over 100 is serious penalty.