Can you have too many internal links?

I have a non-profit blog and I am new to SEO. I keep reading how important it is to have internal links but I wanted to know if too many look spammy to google? Or is it the more internal links the better?

Thanks for your help.

In bound links are very important, page rank relies upon them. Quantity matters of course but quality of links matters more. Get links from site which have good page rank and are relevant to your site.

Hi Sally thanks for the tip. But I was wondering if you can have too many links within your own website not from other sources.

Well, linking every word would be too many... Would it for sure get you banned/devalued I dont know, but if I were a google bot I would put any weight on them.

I use one global nav menu for usability, then I link page to page with in-content keyword anchors. Works well for me. I dont really have a specific number of links per page that I use or dont use, but I generally do around three or four out of habit. I make the links something the visitor would find useful, or to promote additional products related to what I am speaking of in whatever content I am linking from.

I think 3-5 internal link each page should be fine. If everypage has more thank 10 internal links, it doesn't look naturally, so you should avoid it.

The question is irrelevant really, as you should be writing content and creating internal links that are contextual to the content that surrounds them, so you shouldnt be creating as many as possible for maximum benefit.

You should be creating them where it makes sense to for your visitors benefit, it should be a natural process not artificially adding internal links willy nilly for the sake of it.

I do not want to add links willy nilly for the sake of it. I have seen a lot of websites where most of the text looks blue because they have so many links in there......that is way to much to me but then some of these websites have good rankings in google etc.

I only ever write new content and only make links where they are relevent. The reason I asked is because I did not use so many links when I first started and I need to go through my blog to see where I need to put some links in. I do not want to put too many links in though if it will harm my blogs rankings etc.

Sorry but I am not an seo expert.

I think interlinking process is beneficial for your site but according to some rules.


If you have lots of pages then you can link them with related keywords or keywords phrases but if you link maximum of pages with only one or two your main keywords then you site can be penalize by google.

According to me you can link one page with some related keywords but with same keywords you can not link several pages.

Looking for more information about related topic because its an interesting and useful topic for SEO and link builder like me.

Thanks

for me,you just need to create a page where you'll place the links. It doesn't look good if there are lots of links in your site, it would look link farm.
In link building relevancy and quality is better.

I think some people are missing the point here; the discussion is about internal linking


This doesn't make much sense to me!
If I link to 2 pages with the same keywords Google will penalize me???
Please explain where/how you come to that conclusion (and bear in mind the discussion is about internal linking, not link-building).

This makes even less sense! What are you talking about?

I don't understand this either!!! You place all your internal links on a single page (sitemap) and you're saying that lots of internmal links on your site make it look like a link farm!!!

@Janejk27 - I think the answers given by googler and pagi just about say it all

Hi clickyB

I know that you have more knowledge than other for interlinking and we all discuss about same.

And i think if you link you two pages with same keywords then it can be useless for you and here i use can be not sure because no one can know google algo ...... you too.

But if you link you both pages with a little different keywords or keywords phrase then it can be beneficial for you.

For example : if you link first page with "real estate" then you should change a bit for second like "commercial real estate" or "real estate in USA", if your both pages contents contain real estate keywords.

By this way you can increase you interlinking wait.

If you have other way of better interlinking then explain here with example

Thanks for your help everyone. :-)