Should I nofollow the links in the drop-down nav menu?
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Currently we have a big drop down navigation menu with a hell of a lot of links for this site:
SEOmoz is complaining that pretty much all pages have too many links, around the 160 link mark.
Should I think about nofollowing all or certain links on the navigation
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I completely agree with Marisa - I have an e-commerce site that recently went through a re-design and it now has drop down navigation for the sub-categories which makes the site more user friendly, but it also increased the links on the page significantly and SEOMoz issued this warning. However rankings are better than ever and this was a logical step in good user interface design, making it as easy as possible to get to the information the visitor is looking for in the fewest clicks.
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Thanks, I thought as much, just wanted to look into every avenue.
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I would strongly advise against this. I looked at your site, and those are all very important navigation links. It's rumored that Google only crawls the first 100 links on a page, so that's why SEOmoz returns that warning. It's not something you need to be overly worried about, especially if your site is user-friendly and logically laid out, and if your links are relevant, all of which seem to be the case on your site.
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