Solve "Too many links on page"
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Hello,
I own a Opencart site with a lot of products , I am getting this error in the campaign report, how can I fix it? Read other members replys but I dont understand how ..
I would appreacite if you could explain it easy because my native language is spanish and my english is really poor
I am really happy of find this site, incredible quality, thank you very much!
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Hi guys,
We are having a similar problem on our site: partysuppliesnow.com.au
There are lots of products on Category pages. However, SEOMoz campaign suggests it as a warning of "Too many links used on a page". Now, what is the best way to solve this problem?Should we leave it, as it is suggested by "smarties954". Or should we use Pagination? If that is the case, how can we control the duplicate content errors. We have a Canonical tag but what link should be given in Canonical?Another question: If we have used Canonical tag in case of pagination, does Google crawl the rest of the pages?
best regard,
Jarrod -
I agree with smarties954 I would not try to reduce the number of links on your page. From personal experience I have done site redesigns that have increased the links on the page to around 160. The first version of the site was optimised and doing well but after the redesign rankings increased even with the increase in links. The site was also much better from a user point of view which I think is very important.
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Hola!! Bienvenida!
Estoy de acuerdo con la solucion que brinda "smarties". No es problema muy grave, solo es un aviso. La recomendacion es tener 100 enlaces dentro de una pagina. Sin embargo es una recomendacion que en ocasiones es dificil de cumplir en sitios "ecommerce" como el tuyo, con tantos productos. Lo que pasa es que aquellos enlaces superiores a 150-200 no los va a contemplar el robot de google.
Lo mas esencial es que el sitio sea totalmente navigable y sea facil de usar para los internautas.
Tu pagina inicial no tiene tantos enlaces, es en las categorias y productos donde se detectan mayor cantidad de enlaces 200-400. Una solucion es quitar lo que no es esencial para la navegacion y agregar mayor contenido de valor. Veo por ejemplo que quizas algunos enlaces en busqueda avanzada se puedan obviar.
Si es posible tratar de reducir a menos categorias tu sitio. En general el diseño de tu sitio me gusta. Solamente siempre tener en mente la navegacion para el usuario.
Saludos, cualquier duda me avisas! y en lo que podamos ayudarte.
Translation
I agree with overall comments of smartie. The general guideline is to have 100 links per page. This a recommendation made by Google however the limit is flexible. With more links you risk losing the ability to have additional page crawled by Goog.e
The most important thing is that your site is SEO Friendly and has the right user experience!
Your homepage doesnt have that many links. The problem arises in deeper links found in categories, and products where i found 200-300 links per page. A possible solution is to have only the most essential links and add more value content. For example, i see that some links in advance search could be trascended.
If its possible try to reduce the overall categories. I like the overall feel of your site.
Its vital to have always in mind, the mind of the user.
Regards!!!
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I guess the error is Too Many Links.
In a perfect world you might want to keep the amount of links per page at 100.
However, due to the size of your site and the amount of categories and products, it will be hard to do so.
You are caught in a dilemma, you want to give your customers ease of access with the menus at the top on the other hand it costs you in pagerank since each link will give away some pagerank.
It it were my site, I would not try to lower the amount of links, but not exceded 200-250 links per page, and focus more on getting quality inbound links to increase the pagerank and offset the problem.
I would also add more content (text) to each category/subcategory since it looks like you have lots of picture but not too much text.
Just a personal point of vue.
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