Too many links? Do links to named anchors count (ie page#nameanchor)?

[blackrails]

Hi, I have an internal search results page that contains approx 200 links in total.

This links to approx 50 pages.

Each result listing contains a link to the page in the format /page.html and also has 3 more links (for each listing) to named anchors within the page. eg /page.html#section1, /page.html#section2, /page.html#section3 etc.

Should i remove the named anchors to keep my links per page under the Seomoz suggested max of 100? Will it impact crawl-ability or link juice being passed?

Thanks in advance for your response.

[dawnieando]

We have pages with quite a lot of category, subcategory and location links in them in some of our sites.  Our findings are that if you have enough link equity coming into the parent page it's not a problem.  All the pages under the page linking which links downwards rank incredibly well.

[Dr-Pete]

I'd tend to agree with Dawn - it's a balancing act. I wrote about it a bit back:

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

As for named anchors, though, they should be fine. Google should treat them all as links to "page.html" (as long as they're true named anchors and not AJAX) and basically ignore the 2nd, 3rd, etc. link. They may not even be crawled (I'm not 100% sure on that), but they shouldn't dilute your internal link juice.