Internal Links are responsible for spamming

[rajdigari]

More than 100 links from every page including Home page and site map is responsible for spamming or for drastically drop down in Google rankings.

Dear Friends,

I have done research on Google and found that, even if any site have good position on Google, good content, quality site, no spamming but then also if that site start loosing its rankings please check it links on every page.

Links( internal and external) should not be more than 100 per page, specially on home page. And if you have a site map which has more than 100 links then create another page (like sitemap2.html) and put remaining links there.

You can just check in Google with your keywords. You will find the sites coming up with your keyword have less then 100 links.

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Keep smiling,

[sufyaaan]

Although, there is no hard and fast rule. It is always a good practice to keep the number of links on a single page to the minimum. Google state at http://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html:

Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).

Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.

But, oftentimes, I come across pages with more than 100 links on a single page and ranking on the coveted #1 position... ;)

[glengara]

I'd look for additional causation IMO, minimum content but showing Adsense for example.

[BradBristol]

Hmmm...

First, I don't think I have ever seen a 'quality' page that has more than 100 links on it. That number of links on a page just means bad SEO to me. 100+ links on a page is NOT for the user, nobody I know likes to sort thru long lists of links that all have one word anchors.

I also believe there is a limit to the number of links on a page that googlebot will index, but, I don't remember what that number is right now.

Glengara, I dont think that rajdigari is asking for advice, I think he is offering it.

[JohnW]

>drastically drop down in Google rankings.

I also don't agree. this may hold back rankings, but should not reverse existing rankings.

[PhilC]

It's not the number of links on a page that Google is concerned about - they happily swallow hundreds of links from a single page. It's the filesize that matters to them - 100k. Their 100 links suggestion is their estimate of the likely filesize.

I disagree that more than 100 links on a page is bad for users. A well organised sitemap can easily have a lot more than 100 links on it. Splitting it up would make it worse for users, by making them fetch more pages just to find the link that takes them to what they want.

[dannysullivan]

We've got a similar thread going here, Thoughts On Google's 100 Links Per Page Limit (http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=10494), so I'm closing this one. Thought about merging the two, but think that would make the two conversations that have developed hard to follow.