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Hi Omar, It really depends how you do it. If you are removing the dropdown from the navigation completely then these pages are going to be losing out on a lot of internal links as a result - every page on the site that was previously linking to them would have stopped. Alternatively if you were just going to remove the dropdown from the homepage only i.e. have a different navigation format for the hompage, then it will not affect the pages as much. Bear in mind that both ways you are removing links to these pages so there's a chance they will suffer slightly. You could test the effects by removing one category and monitoring rankings as a result. On another note, I noticed some no followed links to internal pages at the bottom of the homepage. Have you done this for any particular reason? You may be losing PR for no reason. Ben

Hi Omar, The URL structure really won't hurt you. In fact, your product-level URLs are better than most since they use actual keywords in them. Any more, Google and Bing do a good job of understanding all kinds of URLs. If you had a brand new site, I'd say go with the URL you suggested in (a) but for an existing site with thousands of pages, you won't see any noticeable impact by making this change. With your URLs, you want to make sure your internal linking structure makes it clear what pages are first, second, third, etc. in the hierarchy (how and where you place links). You also want to make sure Google and Bing are indexing all of those pages (meaning, Google and Bing can find all the URLs). So long as those two things are happening, you really do not have a problem. I hope that helps. Thanks, Matthew