SEO Tycoon

**bestwriter** · 06-27-2010, 11:17 AM

I have heard that to get good rankings on search engines, a website should not have more than 50 links on a single page. Is it True? Does it include the ads also which we have on our pages?

**chrishirst** · 06-27-2010, 11:24 AM

What you "heard" is complete garbage.

I suggest that you NEVER "listen" there again!

**pigskinusa** · 06-27-2010, 02:52 PM

There is some truth to that. Having to many links on one page could look like a link farm, which Google hates, unless you are operating a directory of course. Try to stick with no more than 5 per page.

Why do you want so many by the way? You don't want to send all your customers somewhere else.

**chrishirst** · 06-27-2010, 02:57 PM

Oh please, don't talk such UTTER garbage.

Have you counted the links on THIS PAGE????????

Before you believe and start spreading such utter drivel LOOK around you first!!!!!!!!

**ThailandForum** · 06-27-2010, 03:02 PM

42? Isn't that how many links you should have on a page, pretty sure Douglas Adams was quite adamant about it being 42, although there is nearly 100 already on this page, probably will never be found again and is destined to die a sad lonely death.

Ahh, when I post this it's going to add another load of links, bit of a dilema, post and destroy the forum or not.......

**francis84** · 06-28-2010, 10:22 PM

I'm not sure... But I think that the lesser outcoming link is much better.

**Annie1** · 06-29-2010, 02:27 AM

you should have not more than 100 links on a webpage.

**LookingForHelp** · 06-29-2010, 02:44 AM

Less than 100 links would be better.

**seo.vijay** · 06-29-2010, 05:56 AM

You have to keep limitation about link on your webpage.
its false that more link on your page has more popular or PR

**ThailandForum** · 06-29-2010, 06:09 AM

This forum is 20 posts per page, probably 300 or more links per page, it's a wonder anybody finds it.......

**ThailandForum** · 06-29-2010, 06:11 AM

I found this forum on first page of google searching for "Webmaster Forum", I mean isn't that amazing, the domain name hasn't even got forum in it, even then it probably had 300 to 400 links per page, so looking at this as an example what does it tell you?

**marcus deli** · 06-29-2010, 07:20 AM

According to Matt Cutts blog:

Quote:

How Many Links Per Page?

I’m about to publish a blog post with a ton of links in it — almost two hundred of them. So before I did that, it seemed like a good time to talk about Google’s recommendation to “Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).” Why do we provide that recommendation, and what if you decide to ignore that guidance?

The original reason we provided that recommendation is that Google used to index only about 100 kilobytes of a page. When we thought about how many links a page might reasonably have and still be under 100K, it seemed about right to recommend 100 links or so. If a page started to have more than that many links, there was a chance that the page would be so long that Google would truncate the page and wouldn’t index the entire page.

These days, Google will index more than 100K of a page, but there’s still a good reason to recommend keeping to under a hundred links or so: the user experience. If you’re showing well over 100 links per page, you could be overwhelming your users and giving them a bad experience. A page might look good to you until you put on your “user hat” and see what it looks like to a new visitor.

But in some cases, it might make sense to have more than a hundred links. Does Google automatically consider a page spam if your page has over 100 links? No, not at all. The “100 links” recommendation is in the “Design and content” guidelines section, and it’s the Quality guidelines that contain the things that we consider webspam (stuff like hidden text, doorway pages, installing malware, etc.). Can pages with over 100 links be spammy? Sure, especially if those links are hidden or keyword-stuffed. But pages with lots of links are not automatically considered spammy by Google.

So how might Google treat pages with well over a hundred links? If you end up with hundreds of links on a page, Google might choose not to follow or to index all those links. At any rate, you’re dividing the PageRank of that page between hundreds of links, so each link is only going to pass along a minuscule amount of PageRank anyway. Users often dislike link-heavy pages too, so before you go overboard putting a ton of links on a page, ask yourself what the purpose of the page is and whether it works well for the user experience.

Source: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-many-links-per-page/

I suggest concentrating on the internal content. Build more pages and do it logically for both the visitor and the spider. If on a page the content naturally calls for 20 links then by all means put 20 links.

While the pages that are built to satisfy link exchanges are becoming of little value for the Internet visitor, thus little value in the SERPs. That's why the Internet visitor performs a search initially, to find a web site that satisfies his search requirements, not to find web sites that have pages and pages of linked external site.

**ThailandForum** · 06-29-2010, 07:25 AM

That was posted over a year ago when page rank still had a slight bit of meaning.

**Sierra Charlie** · 06-30-2010, 07:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThailandForum

That was posted over a year ago when page rank still had a slight bit of meaning.

Well, despite it being an year old, still has some validity and PageRank (Not the foolbar type) has some meaning when it comes to indexing deeper pages.