Too Many On-Page Links on a Blog

[WiredImpact]

I have a question about the number of on-page links on a page and the implications on how we're viewed by search engines.

After SEOmoz crawls our website, we consistently get notifications that some of our pages have "Too Many On-Page Links."  These are always limited to pages on our blog, and largely a function of our tag cloud (~ 30 links) plus categories (10 links) plus popular posts (5 links).  These all display on every blog post in the sidebar.

How significant a problem is this?  And, if you think it is a significant problem, what would you suggest to remedy the problem?

Here's a link to our blog in case it helps: http://wiredimpact.com/blog/

The above page currently is listed as having 138 links.

Any advice is much appreciated.  Thanks so much.

• David

[KeriMorgret]

Dr. Pete wrote a good post about this at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many that should help answer some of your questions.

[WiredImpact]

Thanks a lot Keri. Dr. Pete's post definitely helps bring some clarity to the issue.

I'm wondering if it's a best practice on a blog to make all the links in the tag cloud "no-follow" links.  We don't really want our individual tag pages to rank.  As such, would it be better for us to make them "no-follow" to avoid diluting the value passed through our other links?

[evolvingSEO]

Hi David

What you really want to do is _noindex_tag pages. See my guide to setting up WP for SEO. You can nofollow the tag links too, but not totally necessary. Google's pretty good at figuring that stuff out.

-Dan

[WiredImpact]

Hey Dan.  Thanks so much for your reply.  Your post is awesome and very helpful.

I'll follow up if I have any more questions.  Thanks so much for your help.