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pages with lots of links are not automatically considered spammy by Google.
cutts clearly points out that this is simply a “Design and content” suggestion by google; however, the links can be considered spammy if they are used for the following purposes:
Can pages with over 100 links be spammy? Sure, especially if those links are hidden or keyword-stuffed.
i still hear arguments on this online, so i thought i'd post a nice period.
Putting 100 links on a page may not violate a Google guideline, but it could actually get the page devalued based on Google's commitment to user experience. I suspect that factors into the algo.
The other thing is your internal links could be devalued if you put so many on one page.
p/g
Google's "100 links per page" guideline
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Putting 100 links on a page may not violate a Google guideline, but it could actually get the page devalued based on Google's commitment to user experience. I suspect that factors into the algo.The other thing is your internal links could be devalued if you put so many on one page.
from the quack of the goose: [mattcutts.com...]
If you end up with hundreds of links on a page, Google might choose not to follow or to index all those links. At any rate, you’re dividing the PageRank of that page between hundreds of links, so each link is only going to pass along a minuscule amount of PageRank anyway.
my take is that it will also decrease the chance of a user clicking a link that one would want; same principle when you reduce the amount of options a user has for a good call to action.
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It makes me guess, that pages with "links", etc. in the title are not automatically considered spammy, either..what do you guys think?
[edited by: Makaveli2007 at 4:22 pm (utc) on Mar. 20, 2009]
