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Is there a general rule on the amount outgoing links on my home page?

by mlmguru
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I have a fairly simple question, I was wondering if I should try to keep down the number of outgoing links I have on my blog home page, I am mainly talking about links I have in my sidebars that also appear on every post and page?

I've put a "no follow" tag on most out going links, but there are some that I can probbably just remove if it will help with my overall ranking.

Any thought?
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    Unless they are spammy, the number of links on your homepage should not have much affect on the rankings of your homepage. The main consideration is the flow of pagerank off your homepage. For example, if you have 10 links, each on get's one tenth of the total pagerank passed. That also means your internal pages get less pagerank, because externals are getting more.
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    • Profile picture of the author mlmguru
      Originally Posted by dvduval View Post

      Unless they are spammy, the number of links on your homepage should not have much affect on the rankings of your homepage. The main consideration is the flow of pagerank off your homepage. For example, if you have 10 links, each on get's one tenth of the total pagerank passed. That also means your internal pages get less pagerank, because externals are getting more.
      Would 4 clickbank links be considered "spammy" ?
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    I would say not, especially if the links relate to the content of your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexander CPA
    I remember reading somewhere that Google only counts the first 100 out bound links on a page (Done by order in source code) - But I've never really bothered to notice, if a page has 100+ OBL, then it's not worth trying to get a link on that page. Running 4 clickbank links is good, but why don't you cloak the links?
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Google likes to see 100 or less for the same reason they like to see
      other things. (Or not) It's called: User Experience.

      Tossing up 100 links on one page would not be user-friendly.

      I don't think they care much about count for other reasons, but if
      you have 100 links on a page, it decreases the user experience, and
      can indeed have a negative effect on google. Your site looks like
      just a bunch of links. There are great ways of doing site structure.

      Your side bar is a perfect example how the blog files posts by months,
      years, etc. If you made 100 posts in a month, clicked on the month, it
      may have a way of truncating the listing.

      nofollow has nothing to do with anything except PR. It does not make
      a link invisible or a website uncrawled.

      Getting back to the first idea here. If you have 100 links to CB products on
      a sidebar, the site is, well, full problems. If you have a reasonable number that
      fit with the sites dimensions, no problem.

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  • Profile picture of the author gtk29
    Too many links on one page are considered link farming. So keep them scattered on your site and few in number.
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