How many links can i have on a page?

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My home page has links to most of the other pages on my site... And growing.


I got a good 120 links + growing on my homepage to other internal pages that feature content.


#1 how many can Google "see"... or crawl


#2 Will this effect any type of link juice flow or something?


#3 should I give a damn?
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  • Profile picture of the author ahmed150
    there can be as many links as much you want but quality of the links also matter
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  • Profile picture of the author mathompson
    you should build links naturally. Otherwise you will be beaten scam. in my opinion, you should let 7 links included inbound and outbout.
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  • Profile picture of the author abhishekknigam
    Hi Snack, As their is no formula but on average competion website you should create 30-40 backlinks per month. And those backlinks should come from relevant and good quality sites. And this is not one time process. It is continious process and you need to increase or decrease backlinks quantity according to competition. Thanks, Abhishek
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  • Profile picture of the author Avpol
    Formerly, Google "saw" (in fact, rather allowed) no more than 100 links per page. But since 2013, you can have as many links on a page as you need. But instead of having, let's say, 1000 links on the home page (leading to internal pages), you'd better have 100 links on the home page leading to pages that in turn have links to other internal pages (it would be a more complicated yet better arranged internal link structure).
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by Avpol View Post

      Formerly, Google "saw" (in fact, rather allowed) no more than 100 links per page. But since 2013, you can have as many links on a page as you need. But instead of having, let's say, 1000 links on the home page (leading to internal pages), you'd better have 100 links on the home page leading to pages that in turn have links to other internal pages (it would be a more complicated yet better arranged internal link structure).
      I was never about the number of links, but file size.

      It also depends on where the links are.

      Google has indeed evolved, but not for the betterment of posting as many links as you need.

      It's now about looking like a spammed page, as well as, well...still file size and placement.

      The OP's page in question, is quasi-spam.

      Google still has a limit to links. They don't tell you a number, as idiotic webmasters think they can follow a list and win. Google wants to stop the idiotic list builders and followers.

      How many links would a reasonably real visitor put up with, and not get confused?

      That's the answer google tells you, and is actually just a rewording of the answer they have always had.

      But people will take "no limit" to the max, and spammy their pages into oblivion.

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      • Profile picture of the author irawr
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        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        I was never about the number of links, but file size.

        It also depends on where the links are.

        Google has indeed evolved, but not for the betterment of posting as many links as you need.

        It's now about looking like a spammed page, as well as, well...still file size and placement.

        The OP's page in question, is quasi-spam.

        Google still has a limit to links. They don't tell you a number, as idiotic webmasters think they can follow a list and win. Google wants to stop the idiotic list builders and followers.

        How many links would a reasonably real visitor put up with, and not get confused?

        That's the answer google tells you, and is actually just a rewording of the answer they have always had.

        But people will take "no limit" to the max, and spammy their pages into oblivion.

        Paul
        You could actually test this pretty easily. If you have a site you don't care too much about, write a script to generate a really simple page with random words from a dictionary and generate a bunch of them with incrementing file sizes (1mb 2mb 4mb 8mb 16mb.) Once google crawls the page see how much of it shows up in the cache. I bet it's surprisingly big since google indexes pdf files.

        Originally Posted by William g View Post

        litonkrl i agree with u but technically there won't be any limitation i think
        /facepalm

        Obviously there has to be a limit.

        Originally Posted by cbpayne View Post

        The clueless from India are out in force again:
        I'm still trying to figure out how to get that working for me without destroying the planet.
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    • Profile picture of the author SnackMemory
      Originally Posted by Avpol View Post

      Formerly, Google "saw" (in fact, rather allowed) no more than 100 links per page. But since 2013, you can have as many links on a page as you need. But instead of having, let's say, 1000 links on the home page (leading to internal pages), you'd better have 100 links on the home page leading to pages that in turn have links to other internal pages (it would be a more complicated yet better arranged internal link structure).


      Thanks for that, its a master list so it needs all of them.
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      • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
        Originally Posted by SnackMemory View Post

        Thanks for that, its a master list so it needs all of them.
        Then move it to some other page, and link that from the home page. It seems like a bad idea to keep your whole archive on your home page. Just link the best or most important stuff. That's how you can use internal links to build strong pages.
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        Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
        Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

        What's your excuse?
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        • Profile picture of the author SnackMemory
          Originally Posted by nettiapina View Post

          Then move it to some other page, and link that from the home page. It seems like a bad idea to keep your whole archive on your home page. Just link the best or most important stuff. That's how you can use internal links to build strong pages.


          Thanks for that, ill consider it.
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  • Profile picture of the author multisys353
    When it comes to Google's crawling ability it doesn't matter, but it does matter when you're diluting PageRank with so many links.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Originally Posted by SnackMemory View Post

    #2 Will this effect any type of link juice flow or something?
    Yeah, and that's why you should "give a damn". Do you feel that everything on your site is equally important? Because in most cases it's not. No matter what your content there's pages or articles that are better than the other stuff. You should try to channel the juice to those instead of evenly distributing it to everything.
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    Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

    What's your excuse?
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    • Profile picture of the author SnackMemory
      Originally Posted by nettiapina View Post

      Yeah, and that's why you should "give a damn". Do you feel that everything on your site is equally important? Because in most cases it's not. No matter what your content there's pages or articles that are better than the other stuff. You should try to channel the juice to those instead of evenly distributing it to everything.


      Thanks for that.
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  • Profile picture of the author jaintechnosoft
    In general the additional links you have on a page, the more efficient you need to make that page,but Google bot has the volume to follow pretty much how ever many links that are create on the page.
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  • Profile picture of the author jihnsiepen
    We should keep only 100 links on a webpage.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      The clueless from India are out in force again:
      Originally Posted by jihnsiepen View Post

      We should keep only 100 links on a webpage.
      Hey genius, can you then explain why Google explicitly says:
      Limit the number of links on a page to a reasonable number (a few thousand at most).
      Originally Posted by abhishekknigam View Post

      Hi Snack, As their is no formula but on average competion website you should create 30-40 backlinks per month. And those backlinks should come from relevant and good quality sites. And this is not one time process. It is continious process and you need to increase or decrease backlinks quantity according to competition. Thanks, Abhishek
      and as for this genius; WTF has that got to do with this thread?
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  • Profile picture of the author litonkrl
    I think it should be depended on the length of your site. Otherwise the site may be looked as an Link list.
    I hope you can understand what I intended.
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  • Profile picture of the author KylieSweet
    Instead of focusing on how many links the site have why don't you analyze on how your target audience will stay long on your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author SnackMemory
    Thanks for the info everyone.
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  • Profile picture of the author KylieSweet
    I'm pertaining on this.

    Originally Posted by SnackMemory View Post

    "how many links can i have on a page"
    Instead of focusing on how many links the site have why don't you analyze on how your target audience will stay long on your site.

    Originally Posted by SnackMemory View Post

    My home page has links to most of the other pages on my site... And growing.
    I got a good 120 links + growing on my homepage to other internal pages that feature content.
    #2 Will this effect any type of link juice flow or something?
    There is no flow of link juice from increasing the home page links to other internal pages, because these kind of quality links are earned from related authority websites.
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    • Profile picture of the author SnackMemory
      Originally Posted by KylieSweet View Post

      I'm pertaining on this.



      Instead of focusing on how many links the site have why don't you analyze on how your target audience will stay long on your site.



      There is no flow of link juice from increasing the home page links to other internal pages, because these kind of quality links are earned from related authority websites.


      This has NOTHING to do with my question.


      How in the world is analyzing how my traffic will stay long on my site going to tell me if Google can see links on my page? And how that will effect link juice if I have lots of pages? Your response is not related to my question in the slightest.


      You are telling me link juice does not flow from the home page to other linked pages? So internal links don't effect anything? Are you sure?


      You seem to be confused.


      I don't want advice on how to get traffic using other methods. I am curious to know the technical details of how links work.
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  • Originally Posted by SnackMemory View Post

    My home page has links to most of the other pages on my site... And growing.


    I got a good 120 links + growing on my homepage to other internal pages that feature content.


    #1 how many can Google "see"... or crawl


    #2 Will this effect any type of link juice flow or something?


    #3 should I give a damn?
    Max and natural back-link will be always good effective for your site rank, that are useful to increase link juice
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  • Profile picture of the author stylelifefame
    You can put many links in a single web page.
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  • Profile picture of the author wdcbangalore
    This is not depend on number of links,you should take care of each and every link so you should do quality of back links.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by wdcbangalore View Post

      This is not depend on number of links,you should take care of each and every link so you should do quality of back links.
      and please explain WTF that this has to do with this thread?
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  • Profile picture of the author tekruiter
    You need to have at least 100 links per web page of the website.
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    • Profile picture of the author fastreplies
      Originally Posted by tekruiter View Post

      You need to have at least 100 links per web page of the website.
      Why not 52 or 13 or 267 and so on
      What kind of dickhead would ever know exact amount? I wanna meet him.

      Talking about asylums... have you lost your freaking mind?



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      • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
        Originally Posted by tekruiter View Post

        You need to have at least 100 links per web page of the website.
        You only have 39 on your home page
        Originally Posted by fastreplies View Post

        Talking about asylums... have you lost your freaking mind?
        Yep
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    • Profile picture of the author Dano101
      Originally Posted by tekruiter View Post

      You need to have at least 100 links per web page of the website.
      Lol. I don't think google ranks your page higher because you have 1 billion internal links on your home page.

      But in regards to the OP, If he is not asking about ranking and only about how many he is allowed. Then I would think skys the limit. Its your site so link those internal pages as much as you want. Just don't expect Google to mistake those 1000 internal links on the home page for site ranking purposes.

      Now if you are selling links to others that will have an internal page on your site, then why not have a 1000 customers paying you $1 a week for a link and a internal page on your site. That will be $1000 a week.

      Then the rest would be up to your readers or bots that will click on those 1000 links to make your 1000 internal clients feel good about the deal.

      But I could be way off as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author ahsonwp
    Originally Posted by SnackMemory View Post

    My home page has links to most of the other pages on my site... And growing.


    I got a good 120 links + growing on my homepage to other internal pages that feature content.


    #1 how many can Google "see"... or crawl


    #2 Will this effect any type of link juice flow or something?


    #3 should I give a damn?


    I see that your first question was answered by other reputable members here. So I'll add my post answering your second question.

    Yes it does effect the flow of your internal link juice. And from my experience, we can control the flow by linking "key pages" of a website on the homepage (which you are already doing I assume), and secondly, linking key pages on "other key pages" of your website (usually secondary-level key pages like a sub-category, etc.).

    What we are doing here is increasing the internal linking of important pages of a website to ensure that these pages get the most link juice.

    Hope it helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author SnackMemory
      Originally Posted by ahsonwp View Post

      I see that your first question was answered by other reputable members here. So I'll add my post answering your second question.

      Yes it does effect the flow of your internal link juice. And from my experience, we can control the flow by linking "key pages" of a website on the homepage (which you are already doing I assume), and secondly, linking key pages on "other key pages" of your website (usually secondary-level key pages like a sub-category, etc.).

      What we are doing here is increasing the internal linking of important pages of a website to ensure that these pages get the most link juice.

      Hope it helps.


      Thanks, that's kinda what I figured.
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  • Profile picture of the author joomdev
    the 100-link guideline is still probably a decent rule of thumb for most sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author davejarvys
      Originally Posted by joomdev View Post

      the 100-link guideline is still probably a decent rule of thumb for most sites.
      I'd contact the web team at Amazon and let them know, they've about 300 links on the front page.

      Structure is more important that quantity.
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    • Profile picture of the author fastreplies
      Originally Posted by joomdev View Post

      the 100-link guideline is still probably a decent rule of thumb for most sites.
      Guideline???

      Guideline made by who, by 100 clowns or monkeys or brainless "SEO Pros"?
      Did Google said that? Can you point us to source of your statement?



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  • Profile picture of the author azaria2410
    You should make natural links include internal and external link.
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  • Profile picture of the author arpitamishra
    #1 how many can Google "see"... or crawl

    Use google WMT to crawl your homepage and all direct links


    #2 Will this effect any type of link juice flow or something?

    Yes . Ofcourse it does. Its reducing the juice on the homepage ( only if you are not getting the juice back from the internal links again)

    #3 should I give a damn?

    Yes. If you want to rank multiple pages then definitely.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gustavo Woltmann
    What you need to do is a juice circle. You need to link to blog post lets say and from that one to the next post, etc, etc.. But it needs to be linked back to your main page so you keep the juice flowing.
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    • Profile picture of the author SnackMemory
      Originally Posted by Gustavo Woltmann View Post

      What you need to do is a juice circle. You need to link to blog post lets say and from that one to the next post, etc, etc.. But it needs to be linked back to your main page so you keep the juice flowing.


      Well most of the links that go from my homepage to other pages, do link back to the home page, so I got that covered.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fitnessdad
    Wow that is a lot of links. Think about how to silo your site. It will make it much more user friendly.
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