High Number of Internal Outlinks

What This Means

This page contains an unusually high number of followed internal links — well above the typical count for pages of its type. The platform flags pages that significantly exceed the average internal outlink count for the site.

Why It Matters for SEO

When a page links to many destination pages, the equity it distributes is spread across all of them — each individual link carries less weight than if the page linked to fewer pages. Additionally, very high outlink counts (hundreds or thousands) may slow crawlers processing the page and create excessive crawl demands on the destination pages.

This is a notice — very high outlink counts are sometimes appropriate (large directory pages, comprehensive resource lists) — but they should be intentional.

What the Platform Checks

The platform counts followed internal outlinks per page and compares against the site average. Fires when a page significantly exceeds the average.

How to Fix It

• Review the links on this page: are all of them genuinely useful to a reader visiting the page?
• Remove links to pages that are not relevant to the page's topic or audience.
• For programmatically generated pages with many links (category indexes, archive pages): consider pagination or filtering to reduce the link count per page.
• Ensure the most important links are prominent — in the main content rather than buried in a long list at the bottom.