Ecommerce web site with too many internal links
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Hi,
We're using Magento CE 1.4.0.1 for our ecommerce web site with a fairly flat navigation system i.e. 9 major categories display across the top menu that when you roll over display 2-20 sub categories (which take you to a groups of similar products) and then individual product pages. The categories and sub categories are available to click on as part of a dynamic Html menu system on each page. Each page also shows a small number of related products. This linking structure seems fairly standard and yet Seomoz throws up the error message, "Too Many On-page links" for most pages on our site. Do I need to really worry about this? Is there much can be done to improve this on an ecommerce web site with a large catalogue of products? I've looked at the Knowledge Base but I don't feel the existing responses adequately address the issue for ecommerce sites.
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maybe the best solution is to sort pages with high bounce rate and modify the link structure of those pages
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I deal with this problem often. Couple of questions:
- Do you use faceted navigation in your sidebar?
- Do you have a superfooter with lost of links?
- What percentage of your links are in the main nav?
- How many links are in the content area in average or per page type?
I found that you can safely exceed "100" quoted by Google if your site is strong enough. It was just a number that they made up, obviously the value is not absolute, but I would probably not push it past 150.
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Take a close look at your analytics and investigate where visitors are going from your home page. If they are following diverse paths deep into your sub categories and individual product pages then leave it alone. If they are predominately going to just the sub categories then you might want to re-think your navigation system.
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