Too Many Links Since Mega Menu Implementation

[DVCrawler]

We have an issue with our recently introduced ‘mega-menu’, which has increased our link count on all pages (as it is a global menu across the entire website).

Is it acceptable to load our mega-menu drop-down content onto the page via AJAX in order to reduce the number of on-page links, leaving only the department headings as on-page links (in order to keep the user experience the same/similar)? Or is dynamic loading of link content frowned upon by Google?

We would still have the ‘AJAX'd’ links available as on-page/crawlable links in the left menu of the department landing pages, by navigating via the department headings.

Any help/advice that could be offered is welcomed.

Thanks

[AlanMosley]

I would not have the menu on every page, home page ok, but not every page. You want to link to as many pages as you can from your home page, and every page you can linking to your home and landing pages.

A simple explaination about PR

http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank

[mosquitohawk]

Some usability experts are actually recommending avoiding the mega menu - http://www.uie.com/articles/mega_menus/

[DVCrawler]

Thanks for the pointers, since implementation Google is indexing almost twice the number of pages however our Organic placement, which has always been very good, has now suffered.