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So can i conclude, that the high number of links in my menu and footer actually dilutes the link juice for all link (on all pages). If i trim the number of links I should see a better passing of rank value throughout my website?

But our link count has been this high for a long time.

So you are telling me, that if i decrease the link count my page will have a higher authority?

The trimming of links is most important on the homepage or should this be done on each and every page?

On our web site (http://www.betxpert.com) we have a mega menu with quite a lot of links in it. I am getting warnings in SEOmoz saying we have far to many links in our pages. But a lot of pages have large menus with a lot of links - are all pages punished for this then?

My primary question is: Since the menu is on all pages, the pages linked in the menu will have a link in from all of our pages (200K+ pages) and a lot of these do not have a good ranking. So what I want to know is if the pages linked in the menu will have lower ranking because of the many links in - or is this a good thing?

Should I consider setting "nofollow" for som of the links on other pages than the homepage (since this is the page with the best rank)?

Okay. Thanks a lot for the effort and answer. I hope it helps me...lets see when the changes take effect. I will post back here in a couple of weeks if i see improvements.

I have removed the links from the menu, apart from on the frontpage. Also i have added nofollow to the links in the section which caused the "extreme linking" warning. This should stop the fall in ranking if this in fact is the issue.

I will try and reduce the number of links on the page. In general we have a lot of links on every page. But if that is a crime i will try to avoid it

Will it help me in getting fewer links if i set "nofollow" for some of them? Will google regard this as fewer links?

Hi,

Thanks for the fast answer.

One thing i did not mention, but could be of relevance. A year ago the site was rebuilt and therefore a lot of URLs were redirected with 301 redirection. However a lot of links in a section of the site did not redirect due to settings on the new server. This issue was fixed last month, so now all the old URLs are being processed by Google and the pages which they redirect to have a lot of links (it is a statistics section) and i have received a warning in webmaster tools about an extreme high amount of links in the web site. I have today set rel="nofollow" on the larger part of the links on these pages (since i really do not want them all indexed).

Can this warning have anything to do with the fall in ranking? I am thinking if we are punished by having pages with too many links - all with links to the bookmaker pages on them?

In general we have a lot of links on the site. Is this really a problem? Is it a known fact that Google punisheds for having too many links in pages?

Regards,

Rasmus

Hi all,

I have a question, which i hope you can answer for me. I have a site www.betxpert.com (a danish betting site) and we have tried to do some SEO to improve conversions.

One of the steps we have taken was to link to all of our bookmaker reviews in our menu (a mega menu). All of our bookmakers have an img and text link in the menu. The menu is shown on every page of the site.

Since we have made this change we have been plumeting down the SERPs. For the search "betsafe" this page http://www.betxpert.com/bookmakere/betsafe is no longer in the top 50.

We also added the "stars" so that the google result will show our over all review for the bookmaker, in order to stand out in the SERPs.

Can anyone explain to me what the problem might be? Over extensive internal linking or?