I have a Forum, so as a result I have a lot of links Is that a problem?

[taychatha]

I'm looking at my initial reports, and it says one of my problems is that I have too many links. should I be concerned? Because part of my site is a forum.

[Hannah_Smith]

Hi Taimoor,

I'm a little bit confused by 'too many links' - which report are you looking at? Is it an on-page report?

If you're talking about excessive internal links then whilst this won't harm the page, but you may find you have issues getting all of the pages on your indexed (if the excessive internal linking is a deliberate information architecture decision and the only way the search engine robots can crawl and index the pages on your site).

If you're talking about excessive external links then your page may be considered spammy by the search engines (particularly if those links are not pointing to high quality/trustworthy sites).

I hope this helps,

Hannah

[SEO5Team]

Hi Taimoor,

While it is impossible to decipher which links are problematic without viewing the data first hand, it is not necessarily a problem to have an abundance of links on a forum-associated website. If the links are coming from non-spam sources in your forums, Google will likely not penalize your site simply on number of links alone. However, this could also signify a strategy for other areas of your website to have more original content and less of a focus on links. Again, it is difficult to tell without knowing more about the site and the links, but this should give you a starting point.

[BrightHealth]

It really depends on the types, quality and anchor text saturation in your profile. Anyone who says otherwise is just plum crazy. It's impossible for anyone to say without looking at the link profile in question.