Excessive Internal Links & links to same location

[soltec]

Hi,

When Google is counting internal links on a page and it comes across two links to the same url, do both of the links count towards Excessive Internal Links?

The reason I ask is that on our website we allow users to navigate through the website in different ways (either by dropdown menus or side menu or through breadcrumbs); which cause some links to appear multiple times on the same page.

Any thoughts?

K.

[AlanMosley]

I would not worry about link count too much unless it looks spammy. but if they are internal links I can not see that being a problem, yes evey link is counted, only the first link passes link text relevancy but all links pass link juice.

I would make sure thet the first link on the page has the correct link text.

[Cristina-Candin]

Hi,

I don't believe that even excessive linking would hurt at all. Internal linking does not change the pages ranking. It would be a non sense for search engines to penalize the website if complex linking is needed (even if looks to be spammy).

Regards

Candin

[AlanMosley]

Internal link certainly does affect ranking like every other link.

http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank