Too many links on my site
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Hi there everybody, I am a total SEO newbie and i am burning with questions. I had my site crawled and found out that it contains too many links. The reason is that it is a site where I constantly write news and articles and each one of them is a new Joomla item, thus a new link. I actually thought lots of content is good for SEO. How am I supposed to reduce the link amount?
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Thanks a lot for the help. I realised too that the tag cloud is a real pain because it did compete with great pages if my site for a particular keyword so I put a no follow on these results and think will have to do it for each tag.
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Hi, thanks for sharing the domain.
I gave a fast check to the cache version of the home page, and noticed how the Tags Cloud is actually seen very well by the bots. Those tags are links and are surely many links. Therefore, I would suggest you to avoid that tag cloud if possible or use a module/component that output the tag clouds in a "invisible" way (i.e.: ajax).
Finally, I would not go crazy if I cannot have less than 100 links per page. Sometimes that is impossible due to the same nature of the site.
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Alex's response is great.
To answer your question, the SEOmoz tool will issue a warning any time there is over 100 links on a given page. I notice your home page is well under 100 links. What is the URL to the page which gives an error?
I would suggest you install the MOZbar. It is an extension that works with FireFox or Chrome browsers and is very helpful for SEO analysis. http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar
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Hey there, thanks for the tip. But by page do you mean a single page on a website containing over a hundred links (website.com/page1.html), or do you mean a whole website that has many different pages, each of them a seperate link
website.com/link1.html, website.com/link2.html....website.com/link100.html
Just making sure i am not lost in translation here.
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Lots of quality, unique content is good for SEO. The warning will be specific to each page, do you really need so many links on one page? The 100 limit isn't firm, it was a guideline Google mentioned a few years ago, but their crawlers have become much more sophisticated since then. I think there was a suggestion that Google wouldn't crawl more than 100 links per page, or wouldn't pass PageRank on to the 101st+ links - it's not such an issue any more.
Check out this blog: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many
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Oh, sure, it is www.freegamesonline.gr
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Hi, may you add the link to your site to see better the issue?
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