Internal Link Quantity Advisable Limit

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We have a group of category-like pages that have a lot of authority. We're interested in adding more internal links on these pages in kind of a "Popular Discussions" sidebar format (these are forum pages).

These pages already have about 90 internal and 5 external pointing links on them. About how many new links would you add to give those newly-linked-to pages a little boost?

Thanks!

[EGOL]

In my opinion, the quality of the linked-to pages and the appearance that they make in the sidebar is really important.  My first step would be to do a good job on that, as much as labor costs or automated selection allows.

After that I would load the sidebar with plenty of links, organized and headlined by category if that is possible.   I would add as many as I could add without looking vulgar 

Those links are actually a bit of extra content, a guide for your members, and a little shotgun optimization for the longtail query.   I might add enough to be vulgar.

[94501]

Thanks, Egol!