Number of outgoing links from home page

Any limit for links

[birdy]

Hi,

Is there a certain number of outgoing links from index page or how it works to not get a penalty any experience..

Thanks

[MHes]

No penalty, but Google advises no more than 100.

I suspect they will follow all spiderable links but only allocate pr to the first 100.

[birdy]

If most of sub pages are quoting index page and these sub pages have no links from index page does that effect sub pages PR Thanks

[kosar]

does it matter, outgoing links, reciprocal links 100 is a good total number

[MHes]

"If most of sub pages are quoting index page and these sub pages have no links from index page does that effect sub pages PR"

Firstly all pages should have a path for the spider to follow from the index page so that they can be found. Depending how many clicks they are from the home page, they will benefit from the index's pr. So a pr5 home page will usually give all the pages one click away a pr4 and then those pages linked to from the pr4 pages will get pr3. This is a crude assumption but generally holds true.

The big debate is does a link from internal pages back to the home page give pr back to the homepage. I think they do, that is why Google limits the number of links it will acknowledge for PR transfer to 100. This stops a webmaster creating 100,000 pages linked from the homepage and using these pages to focus pr onto another page. There must also be a part of the algo which stops the pr becoming perpetual, in other words pr returned to the homepage from internal pages will not count for links out.

PR manipulation within a site has been done for a long time and people have been able to make very big sites with links focusing on a few pages. I think there has been a shift away from pr as an important ranking issue because of this unfair advantage that generated pages can create. I know people say "you cannot generate pr within a site"... but it appears you can to a small extent. So if you have hundreds of thousands of pages, even this tiny amount of pr generated can make a difference. However I believe Google has shifted its algo away from pr, partly due to the above and also the recipricol linking nonsense which no longer makes links a reliable indicator of quality. The more important factor is anchor text.

To answer your question, don't worry about pr if you have pr4+. What is more important is the anchor text of your internal links, and good anchor text pointing to the home page will work wonders.