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How many links is good to have on a page?
Is there a certain limit I should keep to?
Human readers are certainly turned off by "link farms" - pages with nothing but links.
Matt
However, you should structure the links within your site to distribute PageRank to the pages that are SEO'd to rank well.
A site with 100 pages, may be competing on one primary key phrase, 4 secondary key phrases and 20 tertiary key phrases. Thats 25 pages which the sites relies on to compete well and bring in the search engine traffic. The remaining 75 pages may be part of the site (e.g. further content or sub-product pages).
So every page in the site would have about 30 links on it. The 25 that are competeing in the search results, a link to a sitemap and a few links to navigate between pages in that area of the site.
It is considered that if a page has, for example 1,000 points of pagerank, 850 points are available to be divided amongst the links on the page and dispersed to those other pages. So if the page has 100 links on it, each of those links only give 8.5 points. Whereas if you manage the pagerank within the site well and for example only have 30 links on the page, each of those 30 links would recieve 28.33 points.
I know I went a bit beyond the question you asked, but hope this helps.
