Rules of Penalty for Number of Links

Another site says a "rule of 47" exists

[steveb]

I was reading on another site a few mentions to Google penalizing you if your link page has more than 47 links on it. This seems silly to me. I have about 100 outbound links on my link page (and about ten insite links), what purpose would there be to "force" me to make two links pages?

Is there some set-in-granite number of links on a page that you shouldn't exceed, like 47? Thanks.

[martinibuster]

Seems overly specific to be true. Like a web site I analyzed for a potential customer that had been optimized by a shyster. It featured "proprietary" meta tags designed to make them rank higher. HA-HA! Hee-Hee! Ho-Ho! (cough-cough-cough)

It always raises red flags when someone has "secret" information way beyond what is reasonable. To state with certainty that the exact number of 47 is the Google algorithmic cut off for how many links are allowed is beyond belief and absent of any credibility.

Does that mean that dmoz gets a penalty on their category pages? I think not.

I think you're safe.

[agerhart]

steveb, as martinibuster said, this information is ridiculous, and I have alot of evidence to support my opinion. I have seen many, many, PR8 sites that are directories and educational resource websites that are nothing but links. As martinibuster said, ODP and Yahoo! are perfect examples.

[rfgdxm1]

I can't see why Google would penalize at all. The way page rank works is the pagerank is split between all the links. Thus shouldn't a page with a zillion links pass on little page rank?

[jaytierney]

If that were true Yahoo would have a lot of PR0 pages...