Will a blog post about a collection of useful tools and web resources for a specific niche being seen as negative by google for too many links?
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SEO newbie here, I'm thinking about creating a blog post about a collection of useful tools and web resources for my specific niche. It'd be 300 links or more, but with comments, and categorized nicely. It'd be a useful resource for my target audience to bookmark, and share.
Will google see this as a negative? If so, what's the best way to do such a blog post?
Thanks
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All really good answers. Looks like a visual graphical resource guide will be the way to both provide value and no having too many links on the page.
thanks guys.
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Course same value to the reader of that post if you just LIST the URLs, and do NOT make them real live links...
Value passed on still, eh!
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Yunyi,
Definitely going to go with grobro here. 300 links is a heck of a lot to place on any single post, and might be seen as spam. If possible, try to break them down into categories and create separate pages that are directly relevant to a specific topic or set of industry tools.
Not only will this make your information more accessible to your readers and avoid search penalties, but it makes for a much more natural link-building opportunity in the future once you begin marketing your content to relevant sites for those powerful backlinks. It also means that you will be able to market your content to a wider audience and improve brand recognition and potential client base.
At the end of the day, user experience is what drives major search engines, and as much as I love to read and get new information, I think any article with more than 25-30 links would be information overload and would start becoming irrelevant if the author wasn't being careful.
If nothing else, create categories according to your needs (alphabetic, best to worst, newest to oldest, by manufacturer or provider, by domain) and place them on your site to break the information up. This will organize the information and make it clear to your users where they want to go (and what pages they wish to bookmark).
Hope this helps and best of luck!
Rob
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Hello Yunyi,
In my personal opinion, 300 outbound links on a single page are way too much. There is no exact rule for this but for highly authoritative sites I would say the maximum is around 80 outbound links. It also depends on how relevant and valuable they are for your visitors. If there is no way around, I personally would nofollow them.
But do you think anyone would read a post about 300 tools? I would break it down to the 15 best tools for example, otherwise your readers could be overwhelmed.
This is just my opinion, I hope it helps at least a little bit.
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