Ok thank you both very much - that makes a lot more sense now!
I was using the
meta tag analyzer to help raise the seo of my blogs a bit and it has given me a lot of good info about title, tags, etc.
But it counts every link on my blogs as far as categories, internal linking, tags, comments etc, not just the outgoing ones.
And I have always read that internal linking is good - so I am wondering here why am I being penalized?
I really did need to clean up my categories and tags as I tend to be a bit errr umm over-effusive

but I was cutting back so many my blogs were becoming one-dimensional, and what is the point in that? And still I had over 100.
I won't worry so much about it now - I have waaay less than 100 external links on any of my blogs.
Thanks again
