ERROR: Too Many on-page links!

[saultienut]

User wise, my product menu @LEDSupply.com is user friendly, but I'm concerned that it might be seen by crawlers as bad because of the TOO MANY ON-PAGE LINKS error I am getting in my moz crawl report.  Is it really counting all the links in every drop-down menu?  If so, is there are resource on how to fix it????

[Andy.Drinkwater]

I really wouldn't worry about that. It is pretty standard in terms of menus for sites with lots of pages. These Mega Menus are pretty commonplace these days. I haven't yet seen a site penalised for having one.

-Andy

[EGOL]

This question is asked over and over and over  and over again in Q&A.

I would like to see someone from Moz respond to this question with a link to a page that thoroughly provides the answer.  Also, a link to that page should be huge and obvious within the tools where people are encountering these error messages.

Noobs and first time users of  moz tools are wasting lots of time worrying about these error messages.  They might be needlessly tearing their sites up to respond to Moz telling them that they got too many links.

I would like to read an article about this question written by somebody who has done some research or someone from google.  I think that Matt Cutts has given guidance on that old 100 links rule.   I am sure that plenty of people would say that I have too many links on the pages of my site... but I am pretty confident that I don't and the number of links that I have actually puts me at an advantage over people who are listening and responding to these error messages given by moz tools.

[SEO_Mechanic]

As long as each link is pointed at unique content than you should be fine.  Having a lot of links and thin content would be something to worry about.  Plus you are an eCommerce site with a lot of content.

[Cyrus-Shepard]

Hi There!

We moved "too many links" under "Site Information" so it no longer counts as an error. We still include it in your report just for your personal knowledge, but in most cases there is nothing you need to worry about.

Too many links can dilute link authority and may not present the best user (or robot) experience, but at least today search engines can generally crawl all of those.

Dr. Pete wrote a good post on the subject awhile back: http://moz.com/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

Best of luck with your SEO!

[EGOL]

Matt Cutts has a November 2013 video that provides greater clarity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHG6BkmzDEM#t=58