Rel Canonical Warning on most pages

[Jonathan_Murrell]

I have an e-commerce website and have recently started using SEO moz.

candygalaxy.com is the site.

I have over 2000 pages that i am receiving the Rel Canonical notice for, which is essentially everyone of my pages.  I'm a little bit confused as to what this means, good or bad...

I also have over 1800 pages with to many links.  I think this is being caused by the fact that my drop down menus' are quite extensive and begin counted on every page.  Any tips on how to make those menu's links not count?  So that i can reduce the total number of links per page?

Thanks

[deltasystems]

A notice is just a notice. If it was a warning or error, that's when you start getting worried.

There is nothing wrong with the amount of links in your navigation. In fact, it's perfect. You can do a lot worse.. I've seen big names have well into the thousands of links per page because of navigation items. (This, too, is OK because of their higher authority)

So at this point you have nothing to worry about: notice or navigation-wise, anyway.

[Jonathan_Murrell]

Zachary,

Thanks for the help!  The site was hit pretty hard over the last several months by panda/penguin and i'm trying to sort out what's what and trying to get things back on the road to recovery.

Wasn't sure if maybe those excess links might be having a hand in it.  Good to be able to knock it off my list.

Thanks!

[SharewarePros]

Dear friend,

1. Panda = "Pour quality content" usually duplicate content with other sites or pages with small amount of content.

2. Penguin= "Unnatural Links "

If you suspect about 1 and 2 try to work hard to resolve these issues first.

... And later check other things, I have some sites with very pour html and great content and natural links and they are ranking great.

Remember the Google recommendation "useful content for visitors= more external links (votes)" which means high quality site.

Hope it help