Hello!

If I had a page with , lets say, 200 links to internal pages of my site, all in a list, no text between them.
Each link has different anchor text.
BUT
these links only point to 10 other pages,

so I have approx 20 links with different anchors pointing to the same file, all on the same page.
X 10

Are the SE's gonna see it as spam?
Cos its not, before one of you jump on me.
But do you think it'll be seen as such?

other than the x10 part - sounds like a site map

I don't see anything wrong with it, but if you're putting 10x the links on the page to fool a search engine thats spammy in my view

make quality pages that benefit your visitors instead of shady pages that trick stupid robots

If you dont mind me asking, whats it in aid of? all the links i mean. I dont see why there should be a huge problem, internal linking cant be considered spam and as mutilated said, it is generally a sitemap by the sound of things, except the x10 bit. Why dont you try write something interesting that contains all the text and link within it. That way it will be interesting and serve whatever purpose you may be after.

Hi Griffin,

Yes you hit the bullseye.....its a spam.....

On another note if you are having more than 100 links in your website, break them into two sitemaps. You can name the as sitemap1 and sitemap2.

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rather than the *10 on one page, how about several pages, located on different parts of your site?

thanks everyone for your input.

I know it sounds spammy, but its not intentionally, and its not really a site map either.

It would be on the frontpage of a subdomain.

Inside the site, there are about 10 directories, each is a search engine to search different categories of products in my DB. Each category has about 10-20 sub-categories.

Now, I really dont want to be updating the front page everytime i create a new category or sub-cat, so ive got it dynamically getting the folder names (categories) then accessing the DB for a table named after that category to retreive the sub cats. the page displays like:

CAT1
subcat, subcat, subcat
Cat2
subcat, subcat,subcat
Cat3
subcat,subcat,subcat
etc etc

I have easily linked to the main categories, but im finding it alittle more difficult to link to the subcats, what with them being populated by searches, so was just gonna have them pointing to the main cat.

Make sense?

See? not spamming!!
You lot always think the worst!!

Why dont you try write something interesting that contains all the text and link within it. That way it will be interesting and serve whatever purpose you may be after.

i have thought of that. Maybe get a random product description from each subcat and inserting links into there. it more work, but definately SEO gold.

rather than the *10 on one page, how about several pages, located on different parts of your site?

Ill be doing that when I create the sitemap. The plan for that is to sitemap every poss search query, only do it in nice natural looking stages. rather than have a search for every product in every category, ill limit it and slowly increase until everythings mapped.

Im an seo expert with 3 years of expeience.

Aren't we all

Get me wrong.........many text links to the same and different pages.........bunk seo practices. Common sense precedes this. The engines are on to this type bs. Ignore me or ignore the engines: get the stats and judge me after you try it cause I know you will.

Hummm,

A little confused here

Site-map:

Work out what unique pages you have, and the most concise url parameters needed to generate the page. List these in your sitemap. Use nested lists if the semantics suggest so.

10 sub domains?
Each sub domain a category?

The name of the subdomain is available to the php script somewhere in the $_SERVER variable - i would use this to help with querying your db and making the front page of each sub domain unique.

Personally I'd set it out like dmoz - search box on the font page with links to categories, each category page linking to all the sub categories within that, etc etc.

Griff wrote:

I have easily linked to the main categories, but im finding it alittle more difficult to link to the subcats, what with them being populated by searches, so was just gonna have them pointing to the main cat.

Make sense?

No

Generating as many links as you possible can looks like spam and link farming. If it's intentional and not spam then it would look like a poorly built site.

Now then, I know I've not seen your site but i think i know what you might be up to - each search pulls in data from 3rd party websites, so the possibilities could be endless. In an effort to get these pseudo-pages getting traffic you need them in the SEs index. To do that you need a link to them.

If you'd prefer to discuss things further, in private, you can always PM me