Too many internal links to a particular page?

[jmsobe]

I have read all the data regarding the number of links per page, but my question has to do with the number of  internal links to a particular page.

After looking at some of the competition inside Open Site Explorer I can see that the competitor in question  has a much smaller number of links going to the desired page then the site I am comparing. The competitor is outranking a page  that should be ranking higher due to higher page authority and external root domain links.

Internal Links to Page: 9,950

Competitor Page  Internal LInks: 208

Is this a situation where the sheer number of internal links is discounted because of page rank distribution throughout the site?

Just want to get some clarity here. Thank you for your responses.

[DiamondJewelryEmpire]

Google recommend to keep this number under 100, but it's all depends on authority of your page for google to decide what to crawl, how often and how much.

Good Luck.

[jmsobe]

TraxNYC I don't think you understand my question. I am not referring to the number of links on page, I am referring to the number of links directed at a specific page.

[KeriMorgret]

Another explanation might be that there are some session ID parameters that are being indexed and totally inflating the internal links to page metric. If you have an ecommerce site or something that is adding session IDs, you could have a huge number of links to the page that are in truth the same link, and Google is recognizing this. Have you looked at the details of those internal links?