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I realize this is a very old post, but we have found the same issue. We added this to our robots file:

Disallow: /customer/account/login/referer/

When the next crawl runs, will these be removed from the 'Crawl Diagnostics' report automatically?

Have you tried the SEOmoz Crawl Diagnostics report? That will show the 404 errors and the pages on the site that have the links to those pages.

It looks like the warnings continue to show in the crawl analysis. I'll just have to filter them out after exporting the CSV file. If anyone has another solution, let me know!

Thanks. Forgot about the 2nd Twitter link. The 2nd FB link actually allows a visitor to signup for the email list and actually does get used, but differently than the FB icon.

We removed the subcategory links from the Decor section as well. This cuts down quite a bit on the number of links. Thanks for your suggestions.

If you click on each error, you can get more info on the error and where it is occurring. You can also download a CSV report and open in excel (or another spreadsheet program) and see more details about the errors.

Ryan - Thanks for taking a look.

I believe there are just 2 links each to FB and Twitter - one at the top and one at the bottom. I'll make sure that gets down to 1 link each.

The addresses are linked to help fix some local listings. We've had some trouble with incorrect info in Google Places.

That's a good idea about the links in the decor section. Seems like a good compromise to allow most items to be found easily but still eliminate some links.

Thanks again for taking for you help!

Sure - http://bit.ly/mP3PGv

Not sure about the usual way of sharing links here.

Thanks for the replies. No social media widget - just 1 link to our page on a couple of sites.

Most of the links are for the category and sub-category navigation. There are some footer links that could be combined and some tag cloud links that should just be removed.

I am thinking about whether all the sub-category navigation should be removed. The menus could just contain the main categories. Once those are clicked on, the sub-categories on listed anyway.

Will this continue to show as a "warning" in the SEOmoz Site Crawl even if it has the NOINDEX and Canonical tags?

The SEOmoz Site Crawl indicates that we have too many on page links on over 9,970 pages. This is an ecommerce site with a large number of categories. I have a couple of questions regarding this issue:

1. How important is the "too many on page links" factor to SEO?

2. What are some methods of reducing the number of links when there are a large number of categories? We have main categories with dropdown menus currently and have found that they are used to browse and shop the store.

Can anyone give their thoughts on this? Will the FOLLOW, NOINDEX and Canonical tags be enough to overcome the negative SEO impact of having 7000 overly dynamic URLs on our site?

Thanks. I hadn't thought about using a hashtag. If the canonical tag should solve the issue anyway, I think I'll leave it as it is. It does make it a little tough to judge how many errors still remain via the site crawl though.

I tried searching for questions regarding dynamic URLs and canonical tags, but I couldn't find anything s hopefully this hasn't been covered.

There are a large number of overly dynamic URLs reported in our site crawl (>7,000). I haven't looked at each of these, but most of these either have a canonical meta tag or have are indicated as FOLLOW, NO INDEX pages. Will these be enough to overcome any negative SEO impact that may come from overly dynamic URLs?

We are down to almost 0 critical errors and this is now the biggest problem reported by the site crawl after too many on page links.