Nofollow links on our site menu
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Hi
Our site's front page has almost 900 internal links on it (it's an ecommerce site with about 25,000 products). A lot of these are on a pretty involved dropdown menu, which is on every page.
I can't really do anything to get this figure down (its outside my remit), but one thing the developers have done is make all the menu links nofollow on the mobile version of the menu (site is responsive) - otherwise there would be even more links!
My question is as to whether doing this for the mobile menu is a good idea, in terms of SEO?
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I'm not sure of their reasoning to be honest Andy. As I understand it, in the code there are two different menus - one for desktop visitors and one for mobile. Obviously only one shows up, depending on what the visitor is using. And rather than present Google with 500+ menu links twice, they've put nofollow on all the mobile version so only one set is presented.
Does that makes any sense?
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Hi,
What is their thinking for no-following internal links? This is never a good idea and Google will even tell you this because they need links to be able to crawl and navigate their way around the site.
Why would there be even more links on mobile if they hadn't no-followed them?
-Andy
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