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Originally Posted by glenng
Mert - also should someone be looking at the number of outbound links on the page as well, since the PR is spread over all the outbound links?
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To begin with I don’t believe in using Home page links but if you do the number of links on any page is very important.
Not only does it split the PR it also states in Google’s Guidelines not to exceed 100 links. All indication means this is 100 links total (inbound and outbound). There seems to be an indexing issue with pages that have over 100 links.
Some RE Agents have used this to their advantage by having well over 100 links on their Home Page causing in effect one-way inbound links. This has been discussed in several threads on several forums and nothing has changed so I have no intention of getting into that however the way it works is that the Agents has numerous internal links on a page before they get to their partner links. So when Google hits the recommended 100 link limit the partner's reciprocating link is not indexed.
I have even brought this to the attention of site owners and webmasters that engage in this practice. They are FULLY aware of what they are doing and are INTENTIONALY deceiving their link partners.
Yahoo has led the way in the “War on Spam” and has penalized sites with outbound Home Page links. It is only a question of time before Google does the same IMHO.
~VegasMack