The SEO of Link Lists

[LowryBigwood]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Also, pagination would be an excellent move. Some lists have been limiting the amount of links per category page through the use of pagination for years and years. It works - and it should be done. I know, submitters hate it when their sites get pushed over to category-page-2, but in the end, it's best for both parties. There is no way of knowing how many links we should publish per page. People used to say 100, but all of this is speculation. To me, 100 is far to many, especially if you consider the bad text-to-link ratio.

If I was going to guess, I would say more like 10 links per page as opposed to 100. Obviously, the more links on one page, the less each outbound link gets in relation to pagerank.

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Horrible Text-to-Link Ratio
The primary and (perhaps) best way to address this is for list owners to create content for their pages. In this industry, we think of content as photos and movies. In the rest of the world, content is text. More well-written text is what we need. Link list category pages may be served well by having one side of the page publish the listings, while the other side publishes text-rich blog posts. Or, if you can rotate a couple of niche blog posts on the top of the category page, that would be an improvement too.

I think this would be wise for lists owners to create more text content on all of their pages. More text content means more chances of seo traffic. Period.

Me personally... I wonder if Linklists are outdated. They are a hassle to run and take up so much time that it leaves little in the way of time for promoting your site. Maybe there are other solutions available where you could branch out...