bad tips from google themselves

pr at link directory drops step by step

[baron13]

Google says that a webmaster should nit place more than "100" reciprocal links on a website. I have done so and splitet my reciprocal websites into 40 links/site. So I have got about 30 single websites with my trade partners on it. On the first 5 sites I have a pr of 4 on the sites 5-10 I have a pr from 3 and on the rest I have a pr from 0!
Whats that? I think thats really not very fair. My older business partners receive a link from a website with a pr of 0! Sorry but that really sucks and I don't understand why google handles link directorys like that. All the link sites are pure .html sites and they are not stored in subfolders!

:-(

[GoogleGuy]

The "100 links" guidelines is just a good rule of thumb. Keeping pages below 100K is always a very good idea too. But it's not anything that would cause a penalty.

[doc_z]

I agree, as a general rule, but its clear that links beyond #100 are still spidered, and still count.

... but I tend to believe that Google wouldn't show backlinks that had no value.

Just because a link appears as a backlink, this doesn't mean that PR is passed. I think GoogleGuy confirmed this in the context of guestbook links. (Presumably BestBBs is another example for such a behaviour.)

While the PR passed is undoubtedly diminished by being divided among so many links ...

Of course, this effect was taken into account. (and it was already discussed in that thread.)

[peewhy]

I think it is the actual penalties of placing 100+ links on a page that is the Cyber Myth. These rumours abound from getting banned ... to dropping so far down the rankings that we drown!

I'm pretty sure Google's guide relating to 100+ is for cosmetic reasons and at the very worse, googlebot screeches to a stop and reverses home at #100.

Has anyone any examples of a directory with over 100 links on one page that have been crawled?