Recently, I came across of answere in google webmaster about healthy number of outgoing links from any pages. Having a dofollow blog enables all the commentators link to get crawled and indexed while directly contribute towards SERP ranking and page rank. Don’t give more than 100 outgoing links from any single page. So, if your posts have more than 100 comments, split it into 2 pages. If your side wide links is links exceed 100 links (blogroll, featured, friends, families, same niche sites, etc), reduce the scale.
Remember, the total number of links on any single page is counted from sidebars, header, footer, commentator’s link, in comment links and blog content links. Keep healthy outgoing links on any pages of your blog or website, especially those links with dofollow. This will also increase value of outgoing links. From now on, before giving a dofollow link, always remember the rules of “100/page limit”.
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Hmm frankly never noticed the 100 links rule. I thought Matt Cutts did say that it was something leftover from the past where they only indexed the first 100 kb of a page?
I’m not sure what Matt Cutts said. But, even on ggogle webmaster tool it mention about this 100 links per page.
yep it could badly harm your website, one of mine dropped from 2 to 0 because of this
Sorry for the drop. Hope, this is a live review of giving to much OBL on single page.
I did not pay attention to this before seeing your post. Is thanks enough?
Yeah.. I guess, that will do. Hope, you don’t link out more than 100 outgoinglinks anymore.
what if I put nofollow in them.
thanks
Nofollow links is good. But, it will effect on other search engines like yahoo, msn, etc ranking too. Overall, the higher outgoing link, the poorer page quality gets.
waw, 100 outgoing link!….
it is new for me…….
thanks for your information………..
You’re welcome. Hope it helps you to get good ranking and PR in next update.
Uh-oh I did not know about this recommended limit. It may be too late for my other sites. Thanks for the heads up though, I can still use this information for newer sites
Nothing is too late Ninah. You can always set your limit on comment setting.
It very good info regarding mater. Its really helpful I will mind it.
Great. Hope you will not give out more than 100 links out anymore then.
Was this site “down” for about 2 days? (May 31 and June 1). I was getting a Host Gator “error message” screen.
Yes, Matt. It was due to hosting due. Sorry about that.
I think if your site is a directory or hub, most likely you will be having more than 100 outgoing links.
My personal take is you can add more outgoing links on your blog but make sure that:
1)They are relevant
2)Add nofollow to those links that you think violates the Google TOS
Exactly. Most of the directories are nofollow. Dofollow directories are just waiting to get their PR reduced.