Thread: Can You Have Too Many Internal Links?

I am wondering as my site continues to grow and my site's internal link structure becomes more sophisticated, will I ever reach the point of having to many internal links pointing back to internal pages on my site?

Is have great internal link organization worth sacrificing just out of fear of having too many internal links?

It's hard to tell if there is such a thing as too many. However, it's clear that Google likes quality and relevance over quantity in terms of link juice.

Yes, unlike backlinks from external websites, interlinking is great BUT if you have over 100 outbound links on a page it begins to diminish the value of the pages being linked to. Keep it in moderation and interlinking can bring about enormous results.

Originally Posted by FlightCenter

if you have over 100 outbound links on a page it begins to diminish the value of the pages being linked to.

I think it's hard to put it to exact numbers, but yes 100 is probably a lot unless there is a good reason for having that many links.

Originally Posted by FlightCenter

Yes, unlike backlinks from external websites, interlinking is great BUT if you have over 100 outbound links on a page it begins to diminish the value of the pages being linked to. Keep it in moderation and interlinking can bring about enormous results.

Thanks, outbound links are also considered external links right?

My question is in regards to having many internal links, links that point back to internal pages on my own site.

I am not concerned now with building external links, yet

Originally Posted by BiologyWebmaster

Thanks, outbound links are also considered external links right?

Correct.

Originally Posted by BiologyWebmaster

My question is in regards to having many internal links, links that point back to internal pages on my own site.

Yes, that can be watered down also. I wouldn't think about it in terms of numbers, though. I would just make sure each link serves a purpose and points to a relevant page.

Most of the Internal Links that I has posted on my site are meant to be informative and/or navigational.

None of my sites are designed with black hat techniques, attempts to manipulate search engines or with profit in mind.

So up until this point, I think that I am good with the internal links, even though there are many of them.

And as my site grows there will be even more, I cannot see how having too many internal links could be a bad thing, just check out any wikipedia page they definately overkill on the internal links and more often than not they are almost always the first result on google search depending on the search term query.

Now I know that my site is no way near in pagerank or reputation as is wikipedia, but the myriad of links that I have created on my site are put their with thought and purpose.

Also, NO i am not trying to make any of sites like wikipedia, only used this example to show another site which has many internal links as well.

Originally Posted by BiologyWebmaster

I am wondering as my site continues to grow and my site's internal link structure becomes more sophisticated, will I ever reach the point of having to many internal links pointing back to internal pages on my site?

Is have great internal link organization worth sacrificing just out of fear of having too many internal links?

As far as internal link is concern, try to limit it up to 45 to 50 per page. In case you like to have a huge number of internal link for easy navigation which is desirable for each website, then you can make nofollow to those links which you think are not required for SEO point of view. Say, your contact us, your [.]pdf pages etc. are not at all required to be followed by any search engine like google, so it's better to mark them as nofollow.

I dont thinks that internal links pointing for your one page will do any thing for you...but in case outbound link pointing to your one page then it will work good for you....

Originally Posted by new12world

I dont thinks that internal links pointing for your one page will do any thing for you...

I Do Not Have it set up to where all of my internal links point to only one page, my internal links are set up to point to other relevant internal pages of site, depending on the page that the links are located on.

Example:

List of Related Topics/Pages (found on the bottom of each content page)
-Link A
-Link C
-Link D
-Link E

Different Content Page

List of Related Topics/Pages
-Link W
-Link T
-Link Y
-Link X

Each content page will have a different list of related topics pages which contain internal links to the internal related topic content pages. Each content page is different so hence obviously as the content changes, the topics which are related to that topic change as well. Thus requiring a completely different set of internal links pointing to related topics pages

Essentially, you are providing a site visitor the means to explore other key related topics in which he/she may be interested in reading due to the fact that this specific set of internal links provided in list form at the bottom of each content page is directly related to what the content page that they just finished reading in it's entirety is about. You know that they will have read the entire article or content page because they would have had to have read the entire content page to have arrived at the bottom where this list of internal related links will be, if you place it directly after your content maybe even in a footer even before or after your references and list of sources!

Internal Pages Link is also good resource in building impressive existence in SEO! But if you use tag system in Wordpress or some thing similar to it! it will definitely enhance your deep linking along in links also!

Originally Posted by Jez

if you use tag system in Wordpress or some thing similar to it! it will definitely enhance your deep linking

I have just started to experiment with using tags as internal links as well, I set these links to automatically query my entire site for whatever keyword that tag represents.

Have begun to notice these showing up as internal links in webmaster tools, also generating some traffic from visitors who use them, brings hits to pages that would otherwise not be hit on by mere random chance alone.

I have not much internal links. Google always crawl quality and relevant links so number of links does not impact on site page rank!

I would prefer you to keep trying @ good way hopefully it will start to get something soon

Too much internal link is not SEO friendly I guess. However, I want some detailed info on the same.

Google only give preference to the quality not the quantity , means to say that you links should be relevant to your sites and from authentic sites...

Originally Posted by shane90

relevant to your sites and from authentic sites...

This thread is discussing about having too many Internal Links not External Links.

Originally Posted by camelia

Too much internal link is not SEO friendly I guess.

Having Internal Links can greatly increase your SEO and improve your sites overall link structure. Do not be afraid about having a certain amount or number of Internal Links, they all will help you more than harm you.