Too Many On-Page Links
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Ok so I am very new to MOZ, and we have just set up our PRO account and campaign. When we got our crawl results we had 4 pages with "too many on-page links". All of these pages correspond with our blog, which is a wordpress hosted blog that is integrated into our site.
Our site is www.moxicopy.com and the blog is www.moxicopy.com/blog
I am confused on how we have over 100 on page links on these pages, as we have very few links on our blog.
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Why would the source code take EVERY single keyword (for over 40 different articles), and link them all together..
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Hey there,
Matt Cutts did a post on this in early 2011 around Google's one-time recommendation that pages should not have more than 100 links on them. He goes some way to debunking this but also notes the need to prioritse which pages you'd like to see recieve the greatest amout of PR, having robust content etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6g5hoBYlf0
Good luck.
Kian
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i thought with the SEO plugin that the keywords were for each individual blog post? because that list looks like every one put together. How would I access the source code in my wordpress dashboard?
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Look at your source code, quite a few links.
Delete all keyword tags and you're stuffing like crazy
<meta name="<a class="attribute-value">keywords</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">moxicopy, brochure printing, flyer printing, eddm, direct mail marketing, business card printing, brand awareness, ,40/40/20 rule, direct marketing, brochures, postcard printing, print marketing, marketing with print, 40/40/20 marketing,greeting card marketing, greeting cards, marketing for print, moxicopy, greeting card printing, print greeting cards,brochure, brochure marketing, roi, infographic, printing company, brochure printing company, brochure design, creative brochures, printing brochures, attractive brochures, discount brochure printer, affordable printing brochures, cheap color copies, sell sheets, discount printing company, marketing printing, affordable printing company, printing for business, business printing, cheap online printing,eddm, every door direct mail, direct mail postcards, printing postcards, postcards for business, affordable online printer, discount online printer, cheap postcards, cheap online printer, print postcards cheap, , printing flyers, cheap printed flyers, affordable printing, discount printing, flyers for business, marketing with flyers, flyer marketing, cheap flyer printing, cheap color copies ,posters, movie posters, creating posters, discount posters, jaws poster, ghostbusters, godfather, jurassic park,5 creative business cards, unique business cards, creative business card designs, stretchable business card, skateboard business card, cheese grater business card, pop up business card</a>" />
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I would suspect that either/both of your left hand nav bar and footer is being counted as links.
To be honest, I generally wouldn't worry too much about it anyway. As long as your page isn't all links and has a fair amount of content on it, then it shouldn't be a big problem.
You might want to ask yourself if so many links are actually necessary on the page though, especially the bottom ones which should be seen as keyword stuffing (poorly formed URLs as well, yo should use- not _ to separate words!) Google is likely you to punish you at some stage in the future for employing this tactic.
There is quite an interesting article and discussion within the comments section here.
http://moz.com/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many The general point the author makes is "More Links = Less Love per Link." Which I very much believe to be true! -
Dr. Pete wrote a post about this warning at http://moz.com/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many that should help give you some background and help you start on this. After you read that, let us know what other questions you may have.
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