Limit of links in the same page

[GDB]

Hi, I have some pages that have more than 100 links. They are links to some stores (affiliate links). I set all of them as rel="nofollow" but I think Google is penalizing me because the link quantity.

What is a good number of URL in the same page?

Thanks

[Mcarle]

General consensus is  keep pages to 100 links per page.

This is not a hard and fast rule though.

Pages with nothing but links many times have a very high bounce rate & that drops you in SERPS.

Pages with good relevant content around the links keeps people on the pages & tells Google that this page has more value then a page with just huge list of links.

With more content you can have more links...

I would split up the link page into 2-3 pages of links & make sure that you ALSO have good content around those links.

[waqid]

How do you know you are getting penalized? Did you add those links and then drop in rankings. Send over a link to your site.

[irvingw]

you can javascript the links and google won't follow them and you won't be throwing away all your PR on those pages

send over the URL

[GDB]

Hi, I don't know exactly but it seems that some days after those links I had all my site positioning down. Now, all those links are with nofollow, but on the beginning not.

[GDB]

Follow one of the links: http://www.coupontrade.com/coupons/merchant/target

[GDB]

Hi, follow one of them. Some are external, other are internals. All externals has nofollow:

http://www.coupontrade.com/coupons/merchant/home-depot

Thanks.

[GDB]

Thanks Mcarle.