Too many links per page

[mowax]

I recently found out about google's guideline stating that each page should have fewer than 100 links. I have since got the number of links of my home page down from 148 to 120, but I'm finding that all the blocks in Prestashop add so many links that you almost can't add any of your own without falling outside of the guidelines. And after snooping around other forum members' websites, I can see that everyone else is also falling outside the guidelines.

I know that a lot of the links in prestashop are good for SEO, but there are a lot that I am thinking about removing. There are too many in the 'featured products' block for instance.

Do people pay much attention to this guideline or not? Apparantly the search engines do.

Please post any thoughts or findings on this subject to determine it is worth adhering to this guideline.

Regards