Too Many On-Page Links error

[sradhey]

Hello,

I am new to this. The crawl of y website reveals that "Too Many On-Page Links" were found on many pages of the website.

However, when I check those pages, not more than 5 links are found- I have not included links outside of the post (sidebar/comments/related posts - are these counted in the crawl report ?).

I do use SEO SmartLinks Plugin where in some keywords point to Wordpress Categories but am not sure whether that could be the problem at all.

Can someone guide what the issue could be and how to debug ?

[danatanseo]

Hi Radhey,

I honestly would take this report with a grain of salt. When you ask if the links here are included: sidebar/comments/related posts  without seeing directly, my initial answer is "yes" they are counted.  There are times when a large page with a lot of outbound links (more than 105) are good for the end user. You know, if it makes sense for your business and your customers, then I would take this report with a grain f salt.

Here's an example. We are a large e-commerce site. We are authorized resellers of numerous brands. We want our users to be able to see that and access their favorite brands easily, so we have this page: http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/category/shop-by-brand

That page has a ton of links, but it's the best way (right now) for our customers to see and find their favorite brands.

I wouldn't worry about this report too much, honestly, unless you've spammed a page with 100's of links, which it definitely sounds like you did not do. Hope that helps!

Dana