Site Navigation leads to "Too Many On-Page Links" warning
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I run an ecommerce site with close to 2000 products. Nearly every page in the catalog has a too many on-page links error because of the navigation sidebar, which has several flyout layers of nested links. What can/should I do about this? Will it affect my rankings at all?
Thanks
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Remember that a Warning is just that, a "Warning". This doesn't necessarily mean that you are doing something wrong. It just means that you should be aware of a "possible' issue. If your navigation is intended to help visitors navigate your site and facilitates finding products, then I wouldn't worry about the warnings. If you have such a large navigation just for the purpose of stuffing keywords, then I would reconsider the strategy.
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They are not nofollowed. The sidebar is automatically generated by the shopping cart so I'm not sure if I can nofollow them.
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Are they nofollowed?
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