Too many internal links: Focusing link structure
Overloaded pages dilute orientation, prioritization and link signals.
Overloaded pages dilute orientation, prioritization and link signals The error should never be assessed in isolation. What matters is which URL group is affected and whether it creates a crawling, indexing, snippet, performance or quality problem.
Evaluate link density according to orientation and task
An extensive table of contents can contain many useful links. Hundreds of repeated footer links on each detail page, on the other hand, can make orientation more difficult. Check which goals fit the respective page and which only come from a global template.
Example: Recognizing the Result
Illustrative example: A mega menu repeats several hundred little distinguishable goals on each page. Important services are lost in the selection.
Limit cause and implement correction
Bundle related content through understandable overview pages and get important direct context links. After cleaning, check whether central pages are still accessible. There is no universally meaningful number of links for each page. The goal is a comprehensible information structure, not the greatest possible reduction of a key figure.
What makes you recognize a suitable correction
Structuring link groups according to real user tasks and establishing prominent goals. Complete context links within relevant content instead of reducing a total number alone.
Classification and boundaries
When is this indication not a clear error?
There is no universal ideal number of links. Extensive directories can have many helpful links.
Too many internal links after CMS and cause
Many audit messages can be resolved faster if they are grouped by system, page type and technical cause. CMS indentations are only linked where too many internal links have a clear cause or fixed route in the respective system.
For this error, there is currently no own CMS deepening, because the correction is usually not sufficiently system-specific. Take advantage of the general causes and checks on this page.
Frequent causes of this error
Related SEO Errors
Appropriate Seitenreport checks
This error should not be checked in isolation. The following tools and clusters help to narrow down the cause faster and to cleanly prioritize the affected URL groups.