Too Many On-Page Links
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After running a site analysis on here it has come up and said that I have a lot o pages with too many on page links and that this might be why the site is being penalized.
Thing is I am not sure how to remedy this as one page that says it has 116 links is this one :
http://www.whosjack.org/10-films-with-some-crazy-bitches/
Although there is only one link in the body
Then again our home page has 165
which again it says is too many.
The thing is is that surely it doesn't count on links all over the page as other wise every news homepage would be penalised?
For example what would happen here on this home page? : http://www.dazeddigital.com/
Can anyone help me see what I am missing? Are there possible hidden links anywhere I should be looking for etc?
Thanks
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The more links you have on a page the less link juice you pass along. This means that you can have 100 links on a page pointing to different pages but the strength of the link is reduced by there being so many. You are watering down the links. Now I'm not saying to have just one link on a page but to have links where they make sense. If you have a page on cars and a link to Hanes t shirts it doesn't look natural. Links should be relevent to content. Hope this helps. Good luck
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ok thanks adam
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There is no penalty for having a large number of internal links and yes every single link on the page (not just the ones within the article) are being counted.
The general guideline is to have no more than 100 internal links per page. This is because the more links you have on a page, the less link juice will pass through these links. It is important to note that the 100 links is only a rough guideline and for some sites it may not be possible to have less than this. Of course, if you can reduce the number of links on the page then it would be good but to reiterate, you will not get a penalty for this.
Adam.
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Thank you for coming back to me Ben - I am looking for any possible thing that might be penalising us and in the account bit here it says that that is something that might make it happen.
There is also a site that has 4,000 backlinks to us that is down and I don't know what it is or why its linking to so much of our content - do you think this might have something to do with it?
(we saw a dramatic drop in traffic from the recent penguin and panda updates)
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It's counting ALL the links.
Reducing the number of links on the page is best practice but I don't think there's a penalty for having too many links.
If you're struggling to rank the issue is probably elsewhere.
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