Question Regarding Site Structure

[jensonseo]

I have a quick question regarding site structure that I hope some of you guys could share your opinion on.

I watched a white board friday from Rand a little while back where he explains that you need to try and make the site structure as flat as possible. He was saying try having no more that 3 links from the home page to get to the desired location.

My question is this. I am looking at a site that has a pretty complex structure that I am trying to clear up as much as possible without making any of there rankings suffer.

So they have

www.domian.com/general-category/district/town/

and sometimes

www.domian.com/general-category/district/town/item-specifics

Now i know it is not good as it is, but they are dubious about changing too much as they have some serious traffic coming to the site.

But, my question is that all the pages can be found from the home page through the menus/sub-menus. But do these count as a direct link from the home page. Also a problem is that because of this mozbot has detected that there are too many links from the home page and suggested that it should be below 200. But should I make these menu links no index or no follow.

Obviously, by doing this, if the link does count as direct from the home page it wont after doing this.

Thanks

Jenson

[GoodAtMarketing]

If you no follow the link you should be fine. Googles looks at too  many internal follow links on a page as an overoptimization (manipulation) attempt.