Limiting URL's on a page! What Matt Cutts Says..

[georjo]

Was just roaming through web with the G uncle given links for a query on limiting links on webpages... and The Matt Cutts himself turned up.. What he said on limiting links on a page is as quoted below..

"Matt's exact words - The "keep the number of links to under 100" is in the technical guideline section, not the quality guidelines section. That means we're not going to remove a page if you have 101 or 102 links on the page. Think of this more as a rule of thumb. Originally, Google only indexed the first 100 kilobytes or so of web documents, so keeping the number of links under 100 was a good way to ensure that all those links would be seen by Google. These days I believe we index deeper within documents, so that's less of an issue. But it is true that if users see 250 or 300 links on a page, that page is probably not as useful for them, so it's a good idea to break a large list of links down (e.g. by category, topic, alphabetically, or chronologically) into multiple pages so that your links don't overwhelm regular users."


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[latha]

This is a good find.

Anyways it is not wise to have many links, as they are distracting, and users tend to avoid such pages.