How can I avoid too many internal links in my site navigation?
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Hi!
I always get this notification on my pages 'Avoid Too Many Internal Links' when I run the Page Optimization Score.
And this is the message I get how to fix it: Scale down the number of internal links on your page to fewer than 100, if possible. At a minimum, try to keep navigation and menu links to fewer than 100.
On my website I got a desktop navigation menu and a mobile variant, so in the source this will show more internal links. If I hide those links with CSS for the view, is the problem then solved? So Does Google then see less internal links? Or does Google crawl everything?
I'm curious how I can fix this double internal links issue with my navigation menu.
What are you guys ideas / experiences about this? -
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for jumping in here! Did you see Tomvl's response to your question (below)? Just make sure. Thanks for all your help in the forum!
Christy
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It's a kind of responsive menu wel already have.
So in the source the links are hidden for the relevant view, but does Google also see it that way? Or does Google crawl all the links and still count the double internal links? And does this still has a negative effect on the page score / rankings?Anyone else a idea?
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Can you install a responsive menu on your website? So your link count is not doubled?
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