Ideal number of internal links
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Hi everyone,
I've been trying to find discussions on this topic, but I've only been able to find a couple of posts and they're a couple of years old now, so I'm looking for a more up to date answer.I've been doing some research lately & I'm trying to get a gauge on how many internal links I should have ideally on my website before Google suggests that I'm trying to do the wrong thing.
I know previously it was suggested to keep it under 100, but, I did see Matt mention it on this video (http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-we-dropped-the-100-links-per-page-guideline-but-we-may-take-action-if-it-is-too-spammy-178197) that it's no longer 100 links, but his answer is vague (which is what it might come down to).
We're a digital marketing agency & ideally going to try write pages for our services targeted to each of the main cities around Australia & ideally they would all be linked in the footer of the website (with a nice layout, dropdowns, etc...).
Looking for other peoples thoughts & opinions.
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Here are some resources for you. Some old and some recent. I personally only add links to a page that are helpful to anyone on that is on that particular page.
How Many Links on a Page:
Rand Fishkin talking about footer links for user experience.
Dr. Pete talking about the number of links and how many is too many
Jennifer Slegg of Search Engine Watch talking about how many links per page
Footer Link Info:
John Doherty, formerly with Distilled, wrote a good linking blog on Moz and it had good info on Footer links. He also did an awesome White Board Friday on Internal Linking
Moz Help with Internal Links:
Here is Moz's own take on internal links. http://moz.com/learn/seo/internal-link
I hope some or all of this helps!
Darin
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April 28th post on this at Search Engine Round Table
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-link-unlimited-18468.html
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