Let's have some fun shall we??At the bottom of the content for about 1/3rd of my pages, but not in the footer, I create an internal link for each related IP address to the page on my site for that IP address. This was fine 6 months ago, but now that my database has grown so large, I discovered that it was not uncommon to create 700+ links within this section with one page having 2600. Ooopppsss!! ;-) Houston, we have a problem!Now this is easy enough to fix. For right now, I put a limit 100 on the query. But this got me thinking and searching for a definitive answer. So far... no luck.Please understand I do fully know the effects regarding SEO. Most of you know that already. I am not looking for a lesson- just an idea of a range.Q: How many internal links per page is too many?There are a lot of answers on the net culled from various nether regions and I have a number in mind (also culled), but I was thinking that there has to be an authoritative answer somewhere. Google says reasonable and MOZ's answer seemed to very arbitrary to me. Some so-called SEO experts say as little as 6 and as much as 200. Yeah. That is useful! One said there is no limit. I know there is a semi-flexible practical limit. I remember reading about this years ago, but cannot remember the mechanics behind it right now. I would have to think on this for a while.Bonus Q: If given a choice of creating links from a random query (and yes I can do this) or first 100 or so (using limit), which would you prefer/advise and why? Again, I have an idea in mind (again, culled). Is there anything definitive in this regard as well?My primary concerns are UX, download speed, and lastly, Giigle. (<= please do not edit to change)
How many links (internal) is too many?
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Here is a visualization of the number of links on the homepages of top 98 webpages.  Very few have less than 100, and many have 500 or more.Google used to recommend that any page have no more than 100 links per page.   However, they removed the 100 links per page from the webmaster guidelines some time ago.  Matt Cutts released a video where he says that the limits for page size and number of links per page are much higher than they used to be.I've personally worked on a website with 250-400 links on every page.   That site did very well in search engines. I'm not sure what the upper limit today actually is.   I'd keep it at no more than 500 if I were you.  Above that and I'd think your site would be an outlier compared to other websites.Unrelated to the number of links per page, your website about IP addresses is likely going to have other ranking problems if you have a page for every IP address.   That is a lot of pages and most of them are not going to have much content.   You probably only want to submit the pages with the most content to search engines.I remember that Google was trying to remove phone number sites from its index a few years ago.   Partly that was because so many of them had Be the first to say something about this phone number style blank pages.