100 Outgoing Links Could Hurt Your Blog
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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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May 24th, 2009 at 6:31 am
I’m newbie and 100 links rule is new for me.
Thanks for the sharing. I’ll be your loyal visitor and learn more from you.
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July 19th, 2009 at 7:41 am
You’re welcome Zamri. Hope you like my recent post about John Chow and Graham Langdon (entrecard owner).
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May 24th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
I would add: “Try to keep the number of outbound links per page at 20 or less” (not counting your banners or text ads or Google Ad-Sense).
One highly successful blog (that is in my niche, “Music”) has the comments limited to 10 per page! They are now PR-5 with one of the highest SERP for “American Idol.”
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July 19th, 2009 at 7:47 am
Wow.. I think they really follow this rules there. I wish that will help in PR increase. Maybe, I will try to do the same on this blog too.
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May 25th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Oh thanks for your information, but I think wouldn’t get 100 comment at my blog!!…….
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July 19th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Don’t worry. That what I was thinking when I start this blog. Now, my highest comments on post exceeds 100.
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May 25th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Whew… Well,, I never get a single comment @ my blog.. how pathetic.. hahah
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July 19th, 2009 at 10:52 am
You are heading on right way. Just keep commenting on related blogs, you will see some comments on your blog.
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May 26th, 2009 at 2:08 am
The best way is, by disable dofollow from our blog. As you may know google hate dofollow link
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July 19th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Yes, John. I agree on that by google don’t hate it if we don’t sell it. Selling dofollow links makes us to get penalty. Giving dofollow link for commentators and friends or family where we don’t get any money from it, is still not against google policy.
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May 26th, 2009 at 4:47 am
Are we make a blog just for google? a friend of mine have more than 100 link exchange and he still fine until today. I thing we must re thinking our goal to blogging. For google or for you opinion????
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July 19th, 2009 at 10:56 am
I certainly, won’t go against google as they are the dominant in Internet industry. If you want to search something, higher chance we search from google. That is what majority people does on this planet. If we have been removed from its listing, then it is difficult to strive. Even, for a problogger like John Chow who earns $40k+ per month from his blog need to bow for google rules.
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May 26th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
That’s true: too many dofollow links lower a site pagerank and SE rank in general. Thanks for the tips
I’ll try not to exceed the 50 links per page.
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July 19th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Great! I’m sure you will gain good ranking soon.
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May 26th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
That is a good philosophy to stick be. I will make sure i have less than 100.
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July 19th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Great! It’s actually what big G advice all of us to follow too.
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May 26th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
thanks for this very interesting article , but i can’t get why google is doing all this , generally a webmaster can make money only through selling links , so to prevent him from doing that is like preventing him how making money
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July 19th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Google is not against any link sales. They just want you to mark it as nofollow. Nofollow links have value on other search engines like yahoo, msn, bing, etc. Only google will not give credit to nofollow.
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May 26th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Actually the lesser number of outgoing links the better. I usually minimize it on my blog. I will what Matt says, to reduce my number of comments per page.
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July 19th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Great advice. I think we can start from there. Reducing number of comments to appear per page is a good start.
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May 28th, 2009 at 8:07 am
I will keep this info in my mind in future. thanks for nice info and keep sharing such info.
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Great! Hope you don’t exceed the bar.
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May 28th, 2009 at 8:13 am
This is a very well discussed and debated thing on the forums. Also, people tend to think that there is a 100 link per DOMAIN. So this clarify the issues, 100 outgoing links on a certain PAGE not on the domain, can hurt.
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June 2nd, 2009 at 6:21 am
Thanks of make such nice comment to this post stay touch in future.
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Yes, I agree. Not domain. It is measure on that particular page.
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May 28th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Wow I was unaware of that fact. Good to know.
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Good to hear that you know it now.
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May 28th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Hmm. that is very good to know. I had no idea that it was a set number. I will keep in mind what Seo and matt said, that relieves me a little when it comes to worrying about the PR of my blog (currently at 0 because I bought a domain name)
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:02 am
I wish you all the best for your PR increase. Just keep to OBL at min.
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May 29th, 2009 at 5:24 am
so since you have dofollow link, you have to limit youur comment then
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Exactly. That is why I disable the comment section after 30 days.
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May 29th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Hey— no article about the May 28, 2009 Page Rank Update? Mine went back to PR 4, after 60 days of having been “demoted” to PR 3.
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Congratulations on gaining PR4 back! Mine demoted to PR3 now. Hope by next update to see some positive gains.
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May 29th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
That could be the reason why some of my page didn’t have good page rank although it has nice ranking.
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Yes, it is. Too much outgoing links could drag down PR especially that particular page’s PR.
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May 29th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
The Axandra newsletter mentioned something similar, about a new google “ban” where sites drop to position “50″ or lower if they link to bad neighborhoods or purchase links.
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:06 am
I wish my link does not stuck among all those buy viagra, phramacy links. Surely, it will effect badly in SERP.
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May 30th, 2009 at 9:06 am
yeah , good information atniz .but I think that guideline would me mainly if their is no text and only links .what is your opinion ?
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:07 am
It is dofollow link, Gagan. If it is nofollow, it won’t effect google serp or PR.
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May 30th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Excellent tip, thanks for sharing. I am getting ready to makeover my blog and I will attempt to reduce the number of outgoing links and I just recently closed comments on a popular post at 60. Just thought it was a good idea, now I know it was.
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Good step to start. I think limiting comments/page can be additional point.
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June 2nd, 2009 at 1:01 am
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
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Exactly. Most of the directories are nofollow. Dofollow directories are just waiting to get their PR reduced.
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June 2nd, 2009 at 5:54 am
Was this site “down” for about 2 days? (May 31 and June 1). I was getting a Host Gator “error message” screen.
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Yes, Matt. It was due to hosting due. Sorry about that.
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June 2nd, 2009 at 9:54 am
It very good info regarding mater. Its really helpful I will mind it.
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Great. Hope you will not give out more than 100 links out anymore then.
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June 3rd, 2009 at 3:00 am
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
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Nothing is too late Ninah. You can always set your limit on comment setting.
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June 14th, 2009 at 8:53 am
waw, 100 outgoing link!….
it is new for me…….
thanks for your information………..
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:11 am
You’re welcome. Hope it helps you to get good ranking and PR in next update.
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June 19th, 2009 at 10:41 am
what if I put nofollow in them.
thanks
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:13 am
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.
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July 9th, 2009 at 7:28 am
I did not pay attention to this before seeing your post. Is thanks enough?
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Yeah.. I guess, that will do. Hope, you don’t link out more than 100 outgoinglinks anymore.
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July 13th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
yep it could badly harm your website, one of mine dropped from 2 to 0 because of this
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Sorry for the drop. Hope, this is a live review of giving to much OBL on single page.
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July 13th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
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?
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July 19th, 2009 at 11:24 am
I’m not sure what Matt Cutts said. But, even on ggogle webmaster tool it mention about this 100 links per page.
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