Its funny how the universe works.  The other day I was working on some Google AdWord concepts and one of the tips I wanted to give out was what cities were best to use in an Adwords campaign on a city level instead of a national level.  The thought was, I would post a list of the 25 most popular cities and then 400 or more of the next level towns.

This would be quite a list.  And then it got me to thinking about whether Google would consider my post to be a spamming attempt, when really it wasn’t…it was just meant to be good useful information.

Well, the universe came around and handed me the answer as soon as I started reading through some of the popular blogs I like to frequent.  There was one from Matt Capps of Google who was suggesting How Many Links Per Page? were within Google’s limit before they considered you spam.  Surprisingly, he said there really wasn’t a limit and that they wouldn’t consider more than 100 to be spam.

I was quite surprised.  But logically, as he suggested, having that many links in a page would make for a less than desirable user experience and with so many links in a page, it would lessen the power of the PageRank (an interesting clue into how the PageRank system also looks at the pollution of links on a page as well as its relevance and power).

So I am going to run ahead with my post in a little while.  Yes, it will be full of city names and wouldn’t be a very interesting read, but then, its not for reading, its for copying and pasting for a good purpose.