Fixing the Too Many On-Page Links

[shebinhassan]

In our campaign I see that it reported that some of our pages have too many on-page links. But I think most of the links that was seen by MozBot is related to our images. There are a lot of images in our site and at the same time we support 11 languages which adds additional links

One of the pages that have a lot of links is www.florahospitality.com/dining.aspx

What can you <a></a>suggest to fix this?

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[RyanKent]

The link you are sharing does not appear very well at all. I have looked at the site from two different computers using a FF and Chrome browser. The page is not user friendly at all and I suggest you take a closer look at the web design itself.

With that said, generally speaking you want to offer links to your most important pages, and to pages your users will likely want to see. Presenting over 100 links on a page is often not very friendly as there are too many options. It really depends on HOW you present the links. Some sites can offer 200 links on a page and present them in such a manner as to be helpful, but that is not usually the case.

In your case, please take a look at how the site appears in FF and Chrome, fix it, then better feedback can be offered.

[AlanMosley]

I must agree with Ryan here, the site looks like its missing a css file or somthing, they layout is non-existent. I think you havve more pressing concerns that link count

[shebinhassan]

Hi Ryan,

It is working now. We just deployed some updates this morning that's why there was a little downtime.

[shebinhassan]

Hi Alan,

It is working now. We just deployed some updates this morning that's why there was a little downtime.

[AlanMosley]

Thats a lot better, its actualy quite nice layout. But when view all is selected, it keeps freezing and is hard to scroll.

I see you have many languages and this is the problem. I see the site is made from asp.net, why did you not use the globalizatuion feature of ASP.net, it would show a language depending on the users settings on the computer, rather then have several versions, this would  make life easier in development and solve your problem of havaing a link to every version.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa478974.aspx

The idea is to have all your text stored in resource files, one for each lingo, depending on windows settings you pull you content from a different rsource file.

[shebinhassan]

Actually it works the same way as we are using a cms (umbraco). Umbraco handles the translation but in their setup it is a different document hence needing for a link to direct to other language.

[AlanMosley]

Yes but they actualy have different pages,

http://www.florahospitality.com/nl/dining.aspxhttp://www.florahospitality.com/fr/dining.aspxhttp://www.florahospitality.com/it/dining.aspxhttp://www.florahospitality.com/ko/dining.aspxhttp://www.florahospitality.com/jp/dining.aspxCMSmakes things esiser to get started, but always lead to workarounds. if you want perfection you need to create a bespoke website i am afraid.

[shebinhassan]

btw Alan, may I know what browser are you using to see the website? because we are not encountering that freezing and scroll problem.

[AlanMosley]

IE9