Mega Menus? A good or bad idea for link juice.

[DavidLenehan]

Hi

Just wondering what people think of using mega menus for navigation?

We have used them on our new site

http://nicontrols.com/uk/

When I run the site through the excellent SEOMoz campaign tools I see that we have too many on page links. I now believe the menu is good for customers but maybe not for link juice. Anyone got an ideas? Do I remove the mega menu or just reduce the number of links?

Many thanks

David

[Alex-Harford]

The 100 links per page limit isn't much of an issue these days. As long as Google can crawl your menu links (e.g. the menu is not hiding behind JavaScript) and you don't have hundreds and hundreds of links, it should be fine. Other than that you should do whatever is best for the customers rather than thinking about the search engines; personally I was a little overwhelmed by some of the menus on your site, but then again I hadn't taken note of what your site was selling, so at first didn't know what I was looking at.

[KevinBudzynski]

As long as it's good for customers, I wouldn't worry about the link juice (as it is not overwhelming and seems to be well-organized). The engagement metrics is what matters now-a-days.

[irvingw]

looks good.

a) anchor texts are lining up with URLs

b) gotta be good for user experience and conversion

c) Distributing PR well

I see no problems here! 100 link recommendation was from a long time ago, Google now has the resources and desire to follow everything they possible can.