Over the years there’s been many warnings to the effect “too many links per page can raise red flags with Google” and maybe get your site banned. Why? Because Google recommends no more than 100 links per page in their content guidelines, and so, every webmaster trembles with fear.
This is like the ancients thinking thunder and lightning were an angry god.
In March of this year, Matt Cutts, Google’s Quality Control Supervisor, put up a new page with over 100 links.
I’m about to publish a blog post with a ton of links in it — almost two hundred of them. ~ Matt Cutts
Because Matt, himself, is doing it, finally he thinks that the millions of scared-to-death, Googlegod-fearing webmasters around the world should know the truth.
The original reason we provided that recommendation is that Google used to index only about 100 kilobytes of a page. When we thought about how many links a page might reasonably have and still be under 100K, it seemed about right to recommend 100 links or so. If a page started to have more than that many links, there was a chance that the page would be so long that Google would truncate the page and wouldn’t index the entire page. ~ Matt Cutts
I suppose that makes some sense from Google’s point of view. They would certainly rather sacrifice links than cut down on the content, but 100K is a big page. We’re not talking about the images, etc, just the source HTML.
In any case, the point is that Google does NOT automatically label pages with over 100 links as spam.
Does Google automatically consider a page spam if your page has over 100 links? No, not at all. ~ Matt Cutts
Quoted from:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ how-many-links-per-page/
Another myth busted! Now you can rest easy.
G’nite, Bompa
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