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Link Farms vs Curated Outbound: The 200-Link Line
A page with 200 outbound links is a directory, not a recommendation. Google's link spam systems treat mass outbound linking as manipulative intent — and affiliate pages are the usual suspects.
How to fix it
- Keep outbound links on a page under 200 — and far below that in practice.
- Every link should serve the reader's decision, nothing else.
- Partner pages and 'friends' blocks belong in nofollow territory.
- The grader flags outbound link counts per page.
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