How can I reduce Too Many On-Page Links? I am looking for best method through which I can reduce by on page link.

[jemindesai]

Hello,

As I have the Pro Account in SEOMOZ . I have created the campaign for my website and I have seen the warring for on page analysis for Too Many On-Page Links.

As per my knowledge in past it's matter that you can put maximum 100 links per page but now is it still matter or harm if pages has Too Many On-Page Links?

And if yest then please let me know the best method to reduce my On-Page Links with out doing any major changes in website

[Matt-Williamson]

Hi Jemin

My experience of too many on page links is that I did a site redesign in 2012 and the on-page links went up to over 100, which SEOMoz crawl reported on my campaign. I was ranking well before hand with numerous first page listings. However after the redesign my ranking actually went up and my search engine traffic has been steadily increasing ever since - so in short if it make sense to have these links on page and you aren't repeating lots of links then I wouldn't worry. Have a look at some of the big ecommerce sites like Amazon who have well over the link limit on pages yet they rank very well.

I would just take this notice as a guide. In terms of reducing on-page links if you are still concerned then you will need to post your website as it is hard to make a judgement without actually seeing it.

Hope this helps..

[EGOL]

I have a blog with over 150 active categories plus my persistent navigation on top of that - about 70 more links and outlinks in each of about 30 blog posts on every page.  It ranks great.  Great.  But it is a very healthy site with lots of spider activity.

Now, if you have a site with a huge number of links on the page, a huge number of pages and this site has very little power - then you are going to have a problem.  (big ecommerce sites come to mind)

A few extra links on a healthy site should not be a problem.  Check to see if your deep pages are getting into the index, staying in the index and have competitive strength.  If that checks out then don't worry.

[MoosaHemani]

My logic is very simple here, you are creating page for your users and not solely for search engines so if more than 100 links make sense on the page, go with it but if it doesn’t just don’t!

I have encountered many websites who got a positive jump in terms of rankings, and traffic after adding links on the page and you can research forum where people are writing about reducing links and why it is important.

In my personal opinion I think 100 links per page is just an indication but if you think you are doing it right, you don’t really have to follow rulebook all the time.

[dawnieando]

I would agree with Jemin in that its not a huge deal his you have more than 100 links on a page. However, bear in mind that the link equity passed through your hierarchy will be reduced. If you are concerned then consider gathering together some related links and creating a new page from which these can link and therefore reducing the volume on your page going over 100.

[dawnieando]

Some time ago Google changed its text regarding number of links from a specific amount to a 'reasonable number of links'

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769