Observation on Linking to other sites

[PedroM]

Hello,

I have a blog for one year now and in the overwall is going great. In all this time it was an awesome way to discovery some SEO mysterious and learn with experience wich in my point of view is the best way to do it.

Now my observation is about links to other sites and what does that do. At the present I have about 35 keywords in the 3 first places in Google, bing e Yahoo. All good.

I notice that the posts that I have links (dofolow) to other sites are performing better then those ones that only have internal-links. And Its curious that this change as starting to surface in Dezember of 2011.

Now the confusion is about the SEOmoz observation towards external links.

"You should avoid having too many (roughly defined as more than 100) hyperlinks on any given page. When search engine spiders crawl the Internet they are limited by technology resources and are only able to crawl a certain number of links per webpage. In addition, search engine algorithms divide the value of some popularity metrics by the amount of links on a given page."

Now hell with this observation I say. Its working for me and for now on I will actually apply this SEO strategy when Im talking about a subject in a post:)

What do you guys think? Whats your experince on this?

Regards,

Pedro M Pereira

[EGOL]

I don't have any inside knowledge of how search crawlers work and have not done tests that confirm that all of the links on my pages are getting crawled.

But, I don't limit myself to 100 links per page.  I have sites that have over 200 links per page on every page and they do great in the search engines.  I am not saying that I am doing best practice.  I probably am not doing best practice. I am just saying what I am doing and these sites are doing great.

I have a number of pages that are nicely organized industry directories.  They link out to hundreds of external websites.  They rank at #1in Google for their targeted terms beating .gov .edu and same-industry heavyweights.  If I limited the number of links to 100 these would be multipage lists that would make visitors cuss loudly.