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Thanks Keri,

I have read that article a number of times and stick to the fewer than 100 links per page.

I'm just concerned about our sitemap and blog because I can't think of a way to cut down the amount of links on them and whether this will have a negative affect on my entire website.

Rel no follow comes in handy when appropriate.

In this case we felt it was appropriate, as on one page 'the blog' there were several links to the same article (duplicate links).  User's can follow those links but we've asked Google to only follow one of those links to each article.

As you have said you aren't sure what happens to duplicate links, neither do we and this will be an interesting test.

If I see any negative affects this will be reversed.

Thank you for your response Oleg it was very helpful.

The number of links to one article in the blog was for better user experience as we have found people like to click on titles, pictures and read more.

However, as you have highlighted this we are going to place a rel no follow in all links other than the title.

Firstly I would look at the date your main site dropped down the search engine results in case it's an algorithm update you have been hit by.  If it is then this will give you a good indication of what needs to be looked at.

When I clicked on your blog from your side menu the blog opens in a new window.  It shouldn't do this, I would advice you change your code so the blog opens in the current page.

Hello

My Moz report is showing I have an error for too many links on my sitemap and blog.

The links on both pages are relevant and I'm not sure if this has to be sorted out, as I would have thought Google would expect sitemaps and blogs to have lots of links.  If I were to reduce the number of links how much of a positive affect would it have on my site?

If any of you feel it is best practice to reduce number of links on these particular pages, do you have any suggestions on how I can tackle this?

http://www.dradept.com/blog.php

http://www.dradept.com/sitemap.php

Thank you

Christina

You either have to comply to their guidelines or use a different method to grow your business such as using social media.

In the early days we did what we wanted and had good results.  Then we started to read everything out there about SEO & Marketing etc, and started to implement these changes which gave negative results.

We then started to look at what others were doing, if we felt they were the best we tried to emulate them.

What we realised pretty quick is, it doesn't work!  We just have the perception they are doing it right, but we don't have access to their analytics to know if they are. You have to try things out and find out what works best for your company.  Often this involves asking your customers what they like and what works for them.

I've read so many articles from experts that say don't use "send" on a call to action button.  For one client that simple word has worked wonders.  For another "read more" had a higher conversion than any thing else we used.

Thanks Gina

I thought it might be too much information, but I will do that.

I have a handful of pages listed in the Error Crawl Report, but the report isn't actually showing anything wrong with these pages.

I am double checking the code on the site and also can't find anything.

Should I just move on and ignore the Error Crawl Report for these few pages?

Thanks Tom.

The site map is pointing to the correct pages, and when visiting the pages in the search engines no problems arises.

I don't understand why these pages are listed in the crawl error report when I can't see any obvious issue.

I have just downloaded the SEOMoz crawl error report, and I have a number of pages listed which all show FALSE.

The only common denominator is the referrer - the sitemap.

I can't find anything wrong, should I be worried this is appearing in the error report?

Dealing with p1, p2, p3 within a blog.

Would the following deal with the duplication?

name="robots" content="noindex,follow">

Or would using the rel="next" and rel="prev" work better?