How can I improve a megamenu, which may or is the cause of too many internal links?

Question

I have a deep level menu on my website (almost 3 level deep - mouse over)

Here I see

There are almost more than 1500 links internally to my every page.

1. Is this really because of the deep menu nagivation, I have on my site. If yes, How to rectify it.

I have given this menu for better accessibility to all my product pages.

UPDATE : THANK YOU GUYS FOR ANSWERING.

I have remove the 2nd tier from the menu and place as a drop down on the sub category page.

**IS THIS RESTRUCTURING OF MY SITE GOOD OR BAD?

Here, I have given DROP-DOWN to Product in Sub category page, where sub category is also a product page**

I have a query related to drop down, the drop down is in tag.

What I want to know is, should I make those drop down options (which is product page) as a link (that might help internal linking of related pages)?

Any thoughts on this?

Answer 1

So if it's a 1600 links menu, or even hundreds of links one, I would not rectify it. I would reconsider the navigation from the ground-up.

It's too overwhelming. You give people too many choices, and possibly hurt their user experience because of paradox of choice and difficulty to retrieve content.

To do so, just think of what users want when they land on a page, your main categories, then which are your top landing pages or categories with analytics software. You can even use in-page analysis for understanding effectively if people actually click on your menu.

This is an old post of Matt Cutts written in 2009 https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-many-links-per-page/

Take this as still true

So how might Google treat pages with well over a hundred links? If you end up with hundreds of links on a page, Google might choose not to follow or to index all those links. At any rate, you’re dividing the PageRank of that page between hundreds of links, so each link is only going to pass along a minuscule amount of PageRank anyway. Users often dislike link-heavy pages too, so before you go overboard putting a ton of links on a page, ask yourself what the purpose of the page is and whether it works well for the user experience.

Here a video of Cutts talking about tag clouds. They are similar to big menus, because they're just list of links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYPX_ZmhLqg

Answer 2

While I agree lucgenti is correct, I feel there can be minor exceptions.

If the links are just of small preview photos leading into detailed pages and the number of characters in the text in the links is very small, then I'd go for extensive links, but even then, I'd add more options to paginate those links.

On my site I give options for people to view either 100, 200, or 500 picture previews per page for maximum compatibility and user satisfaction, and the text of each link is just a number. Funny thing is at one point as I was debugging my site months ago, the options to view 200 and 500 picture previews per page were not working and I had complaints as a result.

Also, another way a ton of links are acceptable is if you were doing something else with a grid such as some interactive crossword puzzle where each clickable area in a link is defined as a small box, enough to hold one letter.

But in 99% of the cases, I'd categorize the links and put them on the appropriate pages and keep the link count on each page to under 100 if possible.