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Message from discussion My CSS Menu - It's BIIIIG
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 More options Oct 23 2008, 4:47 am
From: luzie
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:47:59 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Oct 23 2008 4:47 am
Subject: Re: My CSS Menu - It's BIIIIG
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>>> Google guidelines recommend a max of 100 links
>>> on a page, and although it's not a fixed limit, I believe
>>> that GoogleBot stops reading links after around 200.  

Right (may differ from site to site depending on 'strength' (~"PR").

>>> This would mean that any lines within the actual
>>> page would be ignored,

I don't think so! (look at the cache-version, it's the complete page
they cached)

>>> and links towards the top of the menu would
>>> automatically be favored.

There's the point. They may not want to crawl pages beyond link number
100, or 150 or 180 (or something), so these pages would never show up
in the index.

>>> I have a sitemap file for the robots,

You can NOT rely on the sitemap, they'll index only 'by links', not
'by lines in the sitemap', they don't do that, at least not before
they "trust" your site quite much.

>>> may be better for the robot to ignore the links within the menu
>>> (or at least the links more than 1 level deep).

You could mark second-level links as unimportant using "nofollow"? Or
use javascript instead of hypertext-anchors?

>>> All pages can be accessed without the expanding menu
>>> (with multiple clicks).

Which of course would be very necessary then, else the bot wouldn't
find the pages marked "nofollow" (or linked by javascript) in the main
menu.

>>> Trouble is, I'm got literally hundreds of product categories

It's not bad ... but still really very big, loading slowly, needing
several hundred pics (symbols) ... i don't really know ...

-luzie-


 
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