Rule page.links.excessive
Reduce the link count on this page
page.links.excessive is a check in Crawlmind's site audit that grades low-impact issues of this kind. This page explains why the rule matters and the exact fix.
Why it matters
Pages with hundreds of outbound + internal links dilute PageRank flow per-link and read as link-farm-shaped to both Google and AI crawlers. Most modern guidelines recommend staying under ~100 navigable links per page; mega-menus and tag-cloud sidebars routinely break that.
The fix
Easiest reductions:
- **Tag clouds** in sidebars: replace with a single "All tags" link.
- **Mega-menu duplication**: links repeated in nav + footer + body. Pick one.
- **Pagination links**: limit to first / prev / next / last instead of every page number.
- **Faceted nav**: `rel="nofollow"` the facet combinations you don't want crawlers walking.
Audit count by opening DevTools → Console:
```js
document.querySelectorAll('a[href]').length
```