Posted by wernerglinka on June 13, 2011 at 9:49pm
I learned from some SEO experts that they have reservations when it comes to using mega menus. They are mostly concerned with the large number of links (link dilution problem) , many of them unrelated to the current page. Some recommend to have just a seperate page with all links that is loaded via javascript, completely by-passing the drupal menu system.
Does anybody have any thoughts on that ?
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I have the same issue on a
I have the same issue on a clients site which is about to launch. They get 90% of their traffic through SEO, but wanted a Mega menu on the new site, against my objections.
You should try and keep the links down to about 40 per page, and a Mega menu can easily eat this all up. As you mentioned loading them via Ajax will of course keep them out of the initial HTML, so I would think this would be a better way to do it.
What I'm doing on my site is loading the Mega menu after the content HTML, so Google will place less significance on them. To Google my Mega menu is no different than having a Mega link footer, something a lot of sites have.
If they really need it, just make sure your Mega menu links will help out the best the can with SEO. Since they loaded on everypage, Google will rank those pages quite high. Use this to its fullest advantage.
Hope this helps.
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@j0rd - I ended up using a
@j0rd - I ended up using a source ordered layout, content first with a link skip to navigation. I have always wondered when people talk about a limited number of links on a page yet use a large footer with many more links... Well, we will see what Google does with this site. Thanks for your reply.