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Originally Posted by digitaldivas
great, thanks izzy Also my understanding from google forums is that under 50 outgoings per page are still fine, if it's over 50, it would be considered "spammy"
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It's a bit more complicated than that.
In my (limited) experience, webmasters search for links for different reasons:
If they want a link to get surfer traffic, they are often quite happy with a link from a 'links' page - I don't think it matters whether you call it 'links' or 'friends', to be honest.
So if it's a link for webmasters to get surfer traffic, it doesn't matter how many links you have on that page. It's not built for Google - it's built to give links, plain and simple. Although I personally wouldn't want a traffic link from a page with hundreds of links - less chance of getting traffic to my site.
However, a webmaster might be looking for a link to get backlinks for his site and, as others have said, in that case he would usually want a link from the index page. But if your links page had decent PR, he might still be interested.
The problem is that most links pages have little or no PR because (apart from your index page) you are not sending that page any links. And that's why someone looking for a backlink wouldn't usually be happy with a link from there.
I suppose the best way to think about it is, what are you offering the other webmaster in return for his link exchange. Is it worth it to him?
That's an awful lot of links mentioned there.
