Splitting up pages with more then a 100 links

[JarnoNijzing]

I got a couple of pages with more then a 100 pages / links on them and thus Seomoz gives me warnings for those pages.

For some categories i have over a hundred of pages. I listed all these on 1 sitemap (html) because it is a quick overview for visitors which pages there are. Is it smarter to split them up or is that pollution of the Internet (almost identical pages).

If i did so i would use rel="canonical" link to the first page (the original) but is it wise?

[irvingw]

you could add a "noindex,follow" tag

this way Google will follow it for spider purposes but you're telling Google not to index it because it's not valuable content for the engines and if you have tons of these that are being indexed it could harm you in a panda update

[EGOL]

If this is an important page on the site that has many links into it from pages across your site then I would not worry about exceeding the 100 links.

Watch Matt Cutts here...  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6g5hoBYlf0

[irvingw]

this is true, back in the days when google had limited bandwidth they would follow 100 links or so and then the bot would bail and move on, now google wants to suck up all the info they can.

still, if you have a LOT of pages like this and you're using them to link to product pages for example and there is little benefit to the user to land on a page like this you may want them to be followed but not indexed for rankings or you could suffer the wrath of the google gods for serving up low quality, low content, low user benefit spammy pages.

[Dr-Pete]

I tend to agree with EGOL - it's a rule of thumb. See my post from last year:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

If this was a sitewide issue, like your navigation, and your site had relatively low authority, then it would be worth worrying about. If you're just talking about a couple of pages, and one of them is your HTML sitemap, then I'd probably just ignore it. Some pages naturally require a lot of links. You could split that sitemap up if you think it would have value for users, but from a purely SEO perspective, I don't think it's an issue.