I have come across this article which was published today.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/4/prweb378960.htm
To quote a particular part:
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| No sitemap - A sitemap is the search engine optimisation tool of choice
| to ensure every page within your website is indexed by all search engines.
| You should link to your site map from, at least, your homepage but
| preferably from every page on your website. If your website contains
| hundreds of pages then split the sitemap into several categorised maps
| and link these all together. Try and keep the number of links per page
| on a sitemap to less than 100.
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| Excessive links - Excessive links on a given page (Google recommends
| having no more than 100) can lower its relevance and, although it does
| not result in a ban, this does nothing for your search engine
| optimisation strategy.
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Some time ago, someone in this group said this rule no longer stands. Is this
correct? Would this limit the extent of crawling?
Many thanks in advance for your time...
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