Solutions for too many links on page (Ecommerce)?

[Sparkstone]

Hello Mozzers,

Most Ecommerce websites I've come across have four main link sections -

Main Nav - About, Contact etc

Side Nav - List of Categories + Products

Footer - Useful links etc

Promotional Area - Promoting Best sellers / Latest products

This ends up totalling anything from 200 to 500 links. I was wondering is there a reasonable solution to hide some of the links? Or should I just ignore the warning?

Thanks,

Dan

[firstconversion]

mostly ignore - if you are at 500 maybe you need to do something though

The further down the heirachy you go, the fewer links I would have

[deltasystems]

It'd help if you gave the URL for more specific advice.

Your categories shouldn't go more than two levels deep if you can help it. Cabelas does a good job of this, considering they have many thousands of products (http://www.cabelas.com/)

Category pages should be paged in some sort of manner, showing 20 products by default. Any links from filtered navigation aren't bad, those are mostly ignored.

Cabelas has 458 links on their homepage, so it's not terrible to get in the higher range. It's just not recommended, because you are splitting up the authority so many different ways. In their case, Cabelas also has extremely high domain authority, so they can also get away with it more easily than smaller guys.