Site Map vs Related Links Page?

Does Google penalize for a "links only" page?

[Widestrides]

If Google does not like a page with only a list of links on it, then will they also dislike a site map page with is basically the same?

What to do? Add content to my site map so it won't be viewed as a links page?

Thanks.

[johnnydequino]

I have seen google start to penalize link pages. I think it's because stupid webmasters call the page links.htm or something. Call your page something like related.htm and it may help.

jd

[KevinC]

I don't think they would penalize a page for having lots of links - or a lot of directories would be no where to be found but possible poison words could possible hurt the page - heres a few I've heard of :

links, TOS, resources, contact, about, privacy, policy, help, search, website, new, fresh, updated, click, best, largest, cool, awesome, top,

[Lilliabeth]

For what it is worth, I have a links.htm (Gee, I don't FEEL stupid ;)) that has as much PR as my other internal pages. It does contain more than links, as I have written short blurbs about most of the sites. My site map is just links, and has no PR.

[dougs]

We see man pages called links and with a PR on the toolbar of zero but it still seems to pass PR.

[davewray]

So, if Google penalizes pages that are just links (and a bit of content), then DMOZ directory should be PR0, right? ;)

Dave.

[Mohamed_E]

To answer the original question, Google recommends a good site map in their
Webmaster Guidelines [google.com]:

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.

My links page, called (surprise!) links.html, has precisely the PR I would expect from is location in the site.

[nakulgoyal]

A page with just TOO many links could be a link farm provided the links are going to External Websites. But when you use a sitemap, you make it quite organized and descriptive that it is not at all a SPAM.

be decent with your work and nobody will ever penalize you. Don't be in a rush and don't do any Quicky PR and Quick Rankings techniques.

[netcommr]

I think Lilliabeth summed up the answer perfectly!

[Widestrides]

So, is it possible to have TOO many outbound, external links on your page?

How many would be too many?

I read where Google might look at how many outbound links you have versus how many inbound links.