On page links tool here at Seomoz

[MPO]

Hi Seomoz - first of all, thanks for the best SEO tools I have ever worked with (this is my first question in this forum, and also I just subscribed as a paying customer after the 30 days trial you guys offer).

My question:

After having worked for several weeks on getting the numbers of links in our forum on www.texaspoker.dk down, we are somewhat surprised to see that we didn't succeed in getting lower numbers.

For instance, this page: http://www.texaspoker.dk/forum/aktuelle-konkurrencer/coaching-projekt-bliver-du-den-udvalgte has (that's what Seomoz seo tool tells us): 239 on page links. Can this really be true? We can't find these links, and we actuually did a lot to lower the numbers of links, for instance the forum members picture was a link before, and also there was a "go to top" link in each post in the forum.

Thanks a lot.

[PedroM]

Hello Soren,

Your talking about links in your site that are pointing to external websites, right?

If so the SEOmoz tools will take a while to show the situacion updated. Still a SEOmoz member crew would be usefull here

[MPO]

Hi Pedro,

Thank you very much for your answer. I have been thinking of the very same as you say: "Maybe it's not updated yet" - but I just think it's strange if the tool has a "memory", since the analysis is made from a complete new crawl ....

[PedroM]

Well as far Im aware the crawling in SEOmoz is once a week.

However I have a project with the same problem as yours. In www.digitaldiscovery.eu I have like 200 on-page links in SEOmoz analyze. I already made the correction but in the SEOmoz analyze it still shows up 200 links in several pages of the website after 2 months..... I think we need help here Soren

Anyone from SEOmoz support team please?

[Cyrus-Shepard]

There's a couple issues to address here, so let's start with the links.

When I ran the page through a tool called SEO browser, it counted 240 links. This was divided between 5 External and 235 Internal. This includes all the navigation links and most of the profile links as well.

The bigger question is, is this bad? 100 links per page is the accepted best practice, and that's why it's included in the tool. But it's not always appropriate for every case.

Dr. Pete wrote a great article on this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

In your case, and for the type of page it is, I'd say you're in pretty good shape as far as the number of links go.

[MPO]

Both of you: Thank you very much! I tagged this question as "good answer" as I believe I got my answer. What about you Pedro?

Great article by Dr. Pete, by the way - thanks for sharing!

[PedroM]

Got it

Cheers Cyrus