Menu & Sub menu structure - section specific sub menu?

[Cornwall]

Hi,

At present I have a set of regions across the nav bar with drop downs for towns within these regions. This totals about 60 links.

This set up is pretty much site wide and the site ranks well for many of these towns. However, this is quite a lot of links per page (without the page specific/content links) and I am wondering about having just a horizontal sub menu of towns appear below the nav bar only specific to the selected region.

Do you think cutting down the number of menu links will be beneficial to the content page's ranking.

Sorry if that isn't very clear, can't think of a better way of putting it.

TIA,
Chris

[Ryan-Bradley]

Depending on your PageRank it's advisable to have less than 100 links per page.

Cutting down on the amount of links you have per page increases the amount of "link juice" given to each link.

However it sounds like what you're asking is more of a usability issue more than an SEO one.

I would have to see an example of a page you're talking about to give a more precise answer.