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Originally posted by aspwm
I got a few questions, Nite.
1) At what point does interlinking get you penalized at google (or any other SE for that matter)?
2) It is suggested (for google) that you dont use more than 100 links in a page. Yet I have seen pages cluttered with a much larger amount of links that give off PR and that are listed on G. What's up with this?
3) If you have more than one link in a page that points to the same URL, are they counted as one link out or as separate as far as links out and PR are concerned? ie. Say I have 5 links on one page all pointing at www.Score-Cash.com, would google count them as 1 out or 5 links out?
Thanks for the lesson!
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I've got a few answers for you..
1- When it's blatant spam. Usually when you're linked up with sites that have been blacklisted by google or any other engine/directory. IMHO link lists tend to not be a good source of interlinking for PageRank.
2- Tough one. I've actually used pages myself that had way more than 100 links and was never penalized for it. From what I understand the number of links you can have, while still being able to keep off the trouble radar is under 200 links total. Also keep in mind, if the page is just a link listing spam page, they will be penalized, but if it's relevant, and has actual content to a specific category, it can probably get away with having loads of links and PR distribution without getting penalized. It's yet another questionable topic that I can't really say what is allowed and what is not allowed because I just don't know for sure myself.
3- You're pretty good at these questionable topics. I see it like this, as long as you have a different anchor text link for each link itself, then it should be okay. So say you have some text content and throw in the anchor text link of "Adult Affiliate Program" linking to your site, then have the keyword "Affiliate Site" and then more keywords under that same keyphrase topic, I think you will be okay and Google may count it as seperate outbound links instead of just one. But again, this is just my opinion, not a fact, so you'll have to use your own methods and trial and error tactics on it and see what happens in the end.
Hope this helps.