Is a table of contents causing too many internal links?

danoseo

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I have a wiki system where the root page of the wiki will generate a table of contents. Each page inside this wiki has a table of contents which can be toggled. Clicking on one of these will bring you to the relevant page. SEO page scans with moz are reporting that these pages have too many internal links. I can understand why it is saying this. Does this mean a table of contents with 20 or so links is bad for seo even though it is very good for the user experience?
 
No, table of contents are a good thing.
Is the TOC using anchor links?
 
links under the # (id) tag would not be considered as separate links.
If that's your case, then they would not considered as internal links at all!

I hope that would help!
 
No, table of contents are a good thing.
Is the TOC using anchor links?

links under the # (id) tag would not be considered as separate links.
If that's your case, then they would not considered as internal links at all!

I hope that would help!

All of the content is not on a single page. So using # to reference the ID isnt possible. The TOC is 30 or so unique urls of different pages. Each page contains the same table of contents and the breadcrumbs follow the hierarchy of the TOC too.

I understand that any SEO scanning tools are general examples and something like a wiki might be an edge case. Sacrificing the TOC would damage the user experience. I just need to be sure how to implement it correctly. I have used http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement to decorate the TOC in the hope that google will understand what these links actually are. I am still worried after this though. A huge amount of effort has gone into these pages
 
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