How many links can I place in my home page?

seomania · 12-24-2006, 09:47 AM

Will anybody care to reveal me how many outbound links can I place in my home page? Presently, I am having 66 links...Is it Ok? I am afraid my PR may get reduced in the ensuing updating process...

jumpenjuhosaphat · 12-24-2006, 10:13 AM

I think Google recommends no more than 100 OBL's on any page.

enigmatic9 · 12-24-2006, 11:39 AM

I guess you are on safe grounds at the moment.

brahmchari · 12-24-2006, 12:19 PM

These much OBL can decrease the link juice transferred to your inner pages.

HigherHeights · 12-24-2006, 03:50 PM

The maximum recommended by google is 100 links per page inbound/outbound.

Sideways · 12-24-2006, 03:50 PM

You have 66 out bound links on your homepage ?

And your trying to gain PR ?

Everybodys got their own recipe but I don't give outbound links on the homepage until I've got some PR to give. Usually I wait till a website has PR4 before I even consider placing an OBL on the homepage.

jumpenjuhosaphat · 12-24-2006, 04:20 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe that the links on your page effect your PR, that is unless you are linking to a "bad neighborhood".

HigherHeights · 12-24-2006, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by jumpenjuhosaphat

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe that the links on your page effect your PR, that is unless you are linking to a "bad neighborhood".

Well you might be right about that...but I will just go with what google recommends, if they would bother even recommend it it has to play a role with how googlebot indexes your page i would think.

zokiii · 12-24-2006, 04:28 PM

If you have sitewides, than ok.
But if you don't have sitewides why don't you make a good list of outbound links something like resources (on another page) and make a link bait

brahmchari · 12-24-2006, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by HigherHeights

The maximum recommended by google is 100 links per page inbound/outbound.

Thats only so that their spider do not have problem browsing the links on the site. Not they are justifying 100 OBL's on the homepage....

**sizzler_chetan** · 12-24-2006, 07:21 PM

I would not place more than 50 links(both external and internal) in a single page

simple · 12-25-2006, 11:06 AM

I agree with sizzler, 50 is the limit in my opinion.

nuttaphong191 · 12-25-2006, 01:20 PM

Not over 100 link

cessai · 12-26-2006, 10:23 AM

i believe it must not be more than a hundred

Web Gazelle · 12-26-2006, 11:21 AM

Keep in mind that lots of links can overwhelm a visitor. I think over 50 links is going to make the page look more like your sitemap than your homepage.

TheBrain · 12-26-2006, 01:40 PM

Even 50 is a lot for users with disabilities. It really depends to do what you want to do with a site. If we think solely SE, then between 50-100 will do. But if we think users... I think we should keep the amount as low as possible.

sniperhiga · 12-26-2006, 07:31 PM

Any ammount.
But, less links you have, bigger chance people will advertise on your site and pay more money.
I will suggest... 25.

Sadu · 12-27-2006, 03:02 AM

Normally, every click from your homepage results in one less PR. So if your homepage is PR5, then top-level subpages should be PR4. I have found if you have too many links on the homepage, then subpages will receive PR-2 (ie will be PR3 instead of PR4). "too many" seems to be in the realms of 80 - 100 links, including both internal and external.

66 outbound links on a homepage is a lot anyway. Unless there is a good reason not to, I would nofollow those links.

webexplore · 12-27-2006, 05:14 AM

You should decrease links from your homepage otherwise it might effect on your PR as well its look.