steveb - 10:20 pm on Jul 2, 2008 (gmt 0)

"There's really no way to combine them into anything smaller because they're so vastly different."

5000 individual products are still easy. use the alphabet if you want but break it down. Sa-Se, Sf-Sr, Ss-Sz, stuff like that.

Google has said the 100 links a page thing forever. It's a good idea to think they aren't kidding. Having two or three pages on a site with 120 or 137 links isn't deadly, but having more than 100 links on a page, wherever they are, is to think Google has just been not serious for six years about pretty much the clearest suggestion they have ever made.