Too Many On-Page Links

[johnsearles]

The SeoMoz site crawler says all my pages have too many links. I am using Dreamweaver with a horizontal Spry drop-down menu bar. My site has several hundred pages and about 100 of them show up in this Spry menu bar. I believe that this would be considered a false positive for too many links - am I right? Or is Google seeing this also as too many links per page? I am trying to get my Google rankings back after being hurt badly by the Penguin. I am using php but don't see another way to do the site links without going to a CMS type site. Thanks for any help you can give.

[RogerElliott]

I get this a lot on one of our sites due to a large set of hover dropdown menus. I ignore the warnings because the menus are useful to our users. I would imagine that yours is a similar situation, but it's not a false positive - the links are on the page so Google has to crawl them. I don't think this type of linking is going to have contributed to problems in Penguin - we've been hit too and we're looking to external links to find the problem.

[johnsearles]

Thanks Roger. This is what SeoMoz wrote to me:

Thanks for writing in! Google is pretty smart and they are probably able to figure this out, so you might be able to ignore 'too many links' error, but I suggest posting this question to our Q&A forum to make sure: http://www.seomoz.org/q

My thought was that they could improve their crawler's software to screen out the spry menu links. Doing this would make it more useful.