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How many links a page might reasonably have?

Seo Men — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:55:03 +0000

Google’s recommendation to “Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number.”

Web Links Per Page

Matt Cutts Said:

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. These days, Google will index more than 100K of a page, but there’s still a good reason to recommend keeping to under a hundred links or so: the user experience. If you’re showing well over 100 links per page, you could be overwhelming your users and giving them a bad experience. A page might look good to you until you put on your “user hat” and see what it looks like to a new visitor. But in some cases, it might make sense to have more than a hundred links. Does Google automatically consider a page spam if your page has over 100 links? No, not at all. The “100 links” recommendation is in the “Design and content” guidelines section, and it’s the Quality guidelines that contain the things that we consider web spam (stuff like hidden text, doorway pages, installing malware, etc.). Can pages with over 100 links be spammy? Sure, especially if those links are hidden or keyword-stuffed. But pages with lots of links are not automatically considered spammy by Google.

visualizes the number of links on the homepages of popular websites

Link’s chart by Nick Bilton: http://www.nickbilton.com/98/

Source: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-many-links-per-page/

Ranking Checker by SEOmoz.com

Seo Men — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:10:46 +0000

This nice SEO tool allows you to check your rankings for up to 5 keywords per day for FREE and it keeps an archive for you. All you need is to sign up for a free SEOmoz account. The coolest part is that you are able to download your archived rankings as CSV.

When you install the “browser button” it automatically copies the URL of the page that you are visiting into the tool for a fast ranking check. Since this free tool can handle up to 5 keywords daily, you’ll be able to check approximately 150 keywords monthly.

Search engine optimisation and Flash

Seo Men — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 10:12:17 +0000

There is much confusion from Flash designers and other deisgners if there content can be indexed by search engines and if they have a chance of ranking in the search engines. Recently at the WebmasterWorld Conference in Las Vegas Tim Mayer from Yahoo held a seminar talking about good site structure for rankings in Yahoo, in the power point presentation he touched upon Flash content and a few things that can be done to make the content indexable (and also worth while). Thanks to Ysearchblog for putting his power point show online

Firstly we have a few facts from Yahoo. Yahoo! does not currently crack open flash files to follow links or extract textual elements. Macromedia provided the SDK but extracting text from .swf files provided little value due to the small amount of text within flash files and much of this text was not useful (“skip intro”). Content providers did not optimize their flash content for search engines.

Here are a few tips that you can do top optimise the content of your flash movies:

Make sure relevant content is text in the .swf files

Create plenty of descriptive text & meta info for the header of the page

Put user prompts such as “skip intro” as graphical content

Create both a “flash” and “html” site versions

href links in html as a footer on each page

Make sure that the title tags are keyword rich sentences and specific for all pages

All of that is good solid advice and I would imagine that it holds true with all search engines even though there has been no word from Google or the new MSN. If anyone has tried to convince a Flash designer that we are going to need to replicate the site to a certain degree in HTML, they will know that it can be very difficult… good luck though.

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Seo Men — Sat, 06 May 2006 09:46:48 +0000

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