title: Max number of links per page
body: <p>Had a conversation about sitemaps with someone from marketing. It was stated that a single page shouldn't have more than 100 links because Google will not follow more than 100 when crawling pages. I had not heard of this limit before.</p>
  
  <p>I did some searching and found that <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=35769" rel="nofollow">Google's Webmaster Guidelines</a> used to state <em>"keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100)."</em> [<a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3814575.htm" rel="nofollow">2008</a>] The Google Webmaster Guidelines now just state <em>"keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number."</em></p>
  
  <p><strong>When engineering a sitemap architecture for a site of say 1,000 pages</strong> (or link list on any page for that matter) <strong>would it be acceptable to place all 1,000 links on a single sitemap page or should multiple sitemaps be used?</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>Also, does submitting an XML sitemap nullify the importance of an HTML sitemap to Google's spider?</strong> If so, then I would imagine only placing important links on the HTML sitemap instead of a link to every page to tailor the page to end-user usuability.</p>