Pages with more than 100 links

oboy

I was reading somewhere today, but do not remember where, that if you have more then 100 links on one page that some search engine crawler stop indexing this page. I have a Site Map page that has more then 100 links.
 
Is this page hurting me more than it may help me with search engine?

vwebworld

While you have a site map page, you should have a link to it from your home page.
 
~Roland

oboy

Hi Roland, I do have a link from the home page to the Site Map it in the upper right. It is on the right side in the navigation bar.
oboy12/5/2007 8:44 AM

vwebworld

Oops, sorry... don`t know how I missed it.
 
You have google analytics... and google site map? When you check those reports what is said about the pages that are indexed? about your traffic?
 
~Roland
vwebworld1/11/2008 2:38 AM

oboy

 



http://www.google.com/search?q=site:pho ... .com&hl=en
I think the last time I looked at this list it was longer. Maybe because I submitted a new sitemap.xml? Should I remove the sitemap.txt that includes only directories? The sitemap.xml includes all pages. Do you think my Site Map page is hurting may indexing because it is so long?

oboy

Ok the index list from Google is back to normal. So it looks like it is not a problem for the indexing.

sddreamweavers

I was reading somewhere today, but do not remember where, that if you have more then 100 links on one page that some search engine crawler stop indexing this page. I have a Site Map page that has more then 100 links.
 
Is this page hurting me more than it may help me with search engine?

Hurting.
Make sure you`re following the Google Webmaster guidelines when creating the page:
http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... swer=35769

cyberdesignz

While you have a site map page, you should have a link to it from your home page.

~Roland

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Yes it sounds good idea.

Abhishek01

that was about xml sitemap (i guess)
vwebworld, is right for HTML sitemap you should have a link from home page that is fine. and if you have xml then you should try to do grouping of xml sitemap.

johnvanis5

I never come across such doubt regarding maximum link to be indexed by google from single page. Even my home page has more then 100 links and I don't think there is any such criteria of indexation.

Ziyapathan0143

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.

vivekshukla

It's completely worth, no such rules are in Google search guidelines

sadesh

Thanks for best information sharing here..

deepak0203

The usual method is to study each page for an average of about five minutes, if you meant to say “one day”.It
would probably be better to give the 100+ pages a speed-read on “day
one”, then split them up into 30-page (roughly) chunks to read on days
after that, taking notes if you prefer, and then going through again a
few times after, which has not only the benefit of helping your learning
through repeated practice but also lets you find potential bottlenecks
very early.

Dennis L.

@oboy

It's OK no worries.

kingsleymatchmakers

This is great.