ECommerce Website Internal Links
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We run an ecommerce website... approx 8K products.
When using the page grader, MOZ tools consistently tell me that I have too many Internal Links on the page.
These are caused from our fairly large menu system, and probably from the sub-category links on the category landing pages as well.I was reading an article that mentioned a no-follow on these Internal links would not really solve the "Too many internal links issue", so wanted to check if anyone has ideas or should I just dis-regard this MOZ suggestion that there are too many in this type of environment?
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Thank you both for the information.
All the best.
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Agree with Chris. It's more of a recommendation. If you have a low authority site, you might want to take a look at the volume of links. Like if you have 500-1,000 links per page that might be a bit much. But natural navigation menu links are nothing to worry about.
The old directive of "don't have more than 100 links per page" is kind of old, but worth remembering as a heuristic, but don't limit yourself to that if you have a good UX.
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Hello,
If your links are from the navigation don't worry about having too many internal links. The Moz tool is more of a suggestion and will not differentiate between navigation links and other on page links. Ultimately you do not want to have a page that appears as an internal link farm, and search engines will distinguish between navigation and other links.
Hope this helps, if you have more questions just ask.
Chris
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