Too many links on a page - pull-down menus

[rarbel]

SEOMoz is showing too many links on the page (www.ankinlaw.com). There clearly aren't 100 visible links on the page. Is it counting each page found on the (extensive) pull-down menu as a link? If not, where do all the links come from?

[MarcLevy]

My tools are showing almost 200 links on the page 193 internal and 6 followed external links. It isn't just about 'visible' links to users, but how many links are listed in the code. The majority of your links are from the drop down menus in the main navigation.

[rarbel]

Is there a way to have a drop down meu that links to the internal pages without having them count as links?

[MarcLevy]

You can make links unreadable using certain techniques, but hiding those links will probably do you more harm than good.

I would re-consider what you list. Maybe everything does not need to be listed from the main nav on every page? I know it seems useful letting everyone get to where they want to go from one click, but it is not always 100% needed and can sometimes actually scare people off!

On your site, take 'Workers Compensation' under 'Practice Areas' - you don't have to list all the different types of workers compensation there, it could be that this information is displayed once getting to the 'Workers Compensation' page - in fact, I see it is already.

This is obviously a business decision you need to make, but something to think about.