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Excessive number of internal links in pages

         

dombili

1:27 pm on Apr 21, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I am facing the issue of managing a huge number of articles lately and checked wikipedia.

The number of internal links in many pages looked quite excessive to me and in many cases, it's not really easy to say that the links were related at all.

Like, you check a truck oriented page and you even see links to songs about trucks at the bottom. In many cases, easily more than 100 at the bottom of the page, with a title like "Trucking industry in the United States".

So do you think they are getting away with this high number of internal links because they are wikipedia with lots of incoming links?

Or in short, do you think I can put 100 internal links at the bottom of each article (400 words on average) we have, providing they are as related as wikipedia ones?

tedster

4:05 pm on Apr 21, 2010 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Wikipedia and other top shelf sites with lots of PR and backlinks can do many things that are more problematic on less powerful sites. If your internal linking looks excessive to you, then it probably is.