Too many on page links

[iAnalyst.com]

Our home page (and 1400 of our other pages) have well over 100 links, going beyond the recommend amount.  Our competitors have less on page links (to other pages on their site) and way more link popularity so we are trying to figure out the best solution for this without hurting our sites conversions and usbaility.

[alhallinan]

The "too many outgoing links" (less than 100 links per page) was originally created because Google could only index 101KB of a page, and so they needed some sort of rule that would help it's users.  However, this rule is no longer in place, and the guideline has been removed.  I would suggest you don't have 50000 links on a page, but your website looked fine.

Wow, I love your website - can you send me an email to alhallinan@gmail.com with some info?

[AdamThompson]

100 isn't really a hard and fast recommendation any more. I do not think your page has too many links to be user-friendly. From an SEO standpoint, see these resources:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-many-links-per-page/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6g5hoBYlf0

I don't think you necessarily need to reduce your links on the page. However, I would definitely limit links to less important pages so that you maximize the link juice that flows to your important pages.

[iAnalyst.com]

Thanks yes, that is the point of what I'm trying to accomplish. We want to maintain more of the link juice that the home page has. However, not sure which of the elements on our site should be tweeked. We have a javascript drop down, the left side navigation, and all the products and tabs on the center of the home page. I think the javascript drop down is being crawled and counted still but not sure.

[alhallinan]

For you guys, I would really recommend focusing on off-page ranking factors rather than on-page ranking factors.  On-page ranking usually only accounts for about 30% of all SEO - off page factors count for about 70.

You need more links, need a strong social media presence, and need to be publishing tons of high quality content about trade shows, trade show marketing, etc.

Your on-page SEO looks great - get rocking on off-page!

[AdamThompson]

I would start by identifying the specific pages you want link juice to go to most, and those that you don't need juice to go to. That should give you a starting place to see what links to reduce or cut.

[iAnalyst.com]

Thanks guys, what about that javascript drop down (view all departments). Should I make those noindex-nofollow?

[CPU]

I've seen big name "expert seos" say that 150 links should be fine on a large site so they still think you should try and keep them at a reasonable level so 100 isn't a hard and fast rule. Like many things in SEO it is a guideline.

[iAnalyst.com]

FYI guys we removed about 100 of the internal links and rankings jumped 3 big positions overnight. They had not moved in over 2 months. Coincidence? I think not.

[eunaneunan]

We have a similar problem, we have a javascript dropdown nav at the top which brings the user to every product category on the site (+100), but we also also have the main categories listed in the left column.   So we have used "no follow" for the javascript dropdown nav, and also other pages like shopping cart etc, so leaving the spider to use the main categories listed in the left column to crawl the site .  But not sure how effective or useful that would be