Dear Forum Members,
I am the webmaster of a PR4 website and have noticed that the rankings have dropped within the last 12 months despite the fact, that I could draw more and more backlinks and social media fans.
One reason for that might be found in the fact that my website does not meet one of the vital Google guidelines:
-> Amount of links guideline
Most of the pages of my website have more than 200 links and obviously that is far too many for most situations.
However, this is owed to the nature of the website (most links are internal links) and I am reluctant to remove them as I see them important for website navigation for the visitors and users.
Now, my question is:
-> Is it sufficient to add rel="nofollow" to these links so that the Google bot only follows the links in the main navigation in the header? This way the user might continue to use the internal links within the whole page to navigate the site. Or do I have to restructure the whole website?
Thanks a lot for your time and I am looking forward to your feedback.
Stay tuned!
