The Affects of Removing Anchor Texts from Super Menu on Homepage

[Ties.com]

Hi,

Currently we have a div that drops down our super menu which has subcategories, ie. under Shop by Color (super menu) Black Ties, Blue Ties, Brown Ties, et, al. (see Ties.com Anchor Text image attached)

If we were to remove these subcategories from the div (in other words, they do not get crawled from homepage, will we loose ranking for those keywords?

We are trying to reduce link count on homepage.

Thoughts?

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[Audiohype]

Hi Omar,

It really depends how you do it. If you are removing the dropdown from the navigation completely then these pages are going to be losing out on a lot of internal links as a result - every page on the site that was previously linking to them would have stopped.

Alternatively if you were just going to remove the dropdown from the homepage only i.e. have a different navigation format for the hompage, then it will not affect the pages as much.

Bear in mind that both ways you are removing links to these pages so there's a chance they will suffer slightly. You could test the effects by removing one category and monitoring rankings as a result.

On another note, I noticed some no followed links to internal pages at the bottom of the homepage. Have you done this for any particular reason? You may be losing PR for no reason.

Ben