Links on a webpage!

[SEO Guru]

I have a question regarding one of the Google Webmaster's Guideline point:

"Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100)"

Does Google counts links marked with nofolow??

For example I have a webpage with 120 links and 40 of them are marked with nofolow, so what Google consider? 80 links or 120 links??

Kindly share your thoughts!

[megri]

In my opinion Google will not consider nofollow links. Well this is not hard and fast rule of 100 links it is just a advice from Google. Google crawl the pages having more than 100 links you can see all links in cache also.

[Old Welsh Guy]

Google does not ignore links that are no followed. it still indexes them it just doesn't credit it with being a link from your site or anywhere.

Also the 100 is simply a guideline, if you want to see the irony count the number of links on the google advice page , last time I did I counted over 140

[gabs]

You only have to look at forum and blogs ect..

The main reason imho that its suggested to have less than 100 is due to give and page a focus in what its linking too..

[rustybrick]

Are you saying Google isn't powerful and mighty enough to crawl more than a 100 links on a page? ;-)

[netegg]

Would Google object to a page that has hundreds of links, linking to itself using anchors?