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Hello Peter,

Thank you for your very clear answer. I was thinking about collecting user behaviour data for this dropdown menu by using Analytics' onclick event trackers. Your idea is way better to use a clickmap or heatmap!

I checked the internal links again and I think there must be a way to cut out some unimportant product categories in the navigation menu and cut out some non-essential footer links.

So, I am not going to change my winning team drastically. I am going to collect some data and I will decide after that what to do with all the links in the dropdown menu.

Once again, thanks for the help. I can move on now.

Marcel

That's what I thought too. But I'm still affraid search engine spiders can't find their way no more in some time. The worst pages has 305 links on it. And building up the authority costs a lot of money.

Will solving these issues bring a lot of benefits?

Hi there,

I have an issue with the amount of internal links on my webpages.

Moz campaign manager gives a lot of 'too many on page links' issues. Over 7000.
I know the importance of a good internal linking structure.

1. Not too many internal links (over approximately 100) is good for flowing through some authority from authoritive pages. 
2. Too many internal links can spend all of the 'crawler budget' so the crawlers won't crawl the complete website anymore (right?). This can cause problems with indexing new webpages (right?).

This is the situation:

• The website is a webshop
• The header contains 6 links, the footer contains 32 links, the homepage contains 42 links, the body content of some category pages contains a variated amount of links from 30 to a maximum of 100 links. Product pages do contain a maximum of 25 links. There is no problem here.

Now here's the problem:

• The website navigation is a dropdown menu that contains 167 links to tier 2. These links are very important for our visitors. They can immediately find the right category/product by it. Removing or shrinking this dropdown is not an option.

But the dropdown navigation is causing all of the 'too many on page links' issues.

Question: is there a SEO (indexing, PA) problem in this situation which i should solve? What should I solve and how should I solve this?

Note: pages have good organic positions and authority.

Thanks a lot.

Marcel