Google and QnA sites

[borderbound]

My website has a QnA site - a bit like this one except  it's not private to premium members.

It is a page with a left colomn for category links and it has a list of recently asked questions, each question is a link to view the full question and answers etc.

Does google know this is a QnA ? Or will it say - hey, there are far too many links on this page, tut tut.

Is there anything I can do to help it understand what the page is.

[RyanKent]

I am sure Google can identify it is a Q&A site, but they don't care as it is irrelevant. To Google, a web page is a web page. Whether that page is a Q&A, forums, blog article, e-commerce store or any other type of web page makes absolutely no difference.

The web page is designed to display content for users in an internet browser on a pc. Google will examine the content in a similar manner for all sites. All the standard SEO metrics apply: page title, quality of text, links on a page, etc.

The links on a page affect the flow of Page Rank throughout your site. I would suggest each page offer a block with your main categories and another with related questions. You do not want to offer 100s of links as that is not very user friendly. If you check the Google Analytics on a website with 200+ links on a page, you will likely discover most links are never used. If you only offer 50 links on the same page, visitors can easily find helpful links and select them.