Dropdowns

Are dropdowns as effective as normal textlinks?

[peewhy]

I have a page with two hundred internal links.

it is over crowded and in danger of not getting totally spidered.

I see two options. Splitting the links over two or three pages or creating a number of category dropdowns.

Which gets more effectively spidered?

[creative craig]

I would create logical site maps and group the links together accordingly.

Extra pages over dropdown menu system every time for me.

[peewhy]

Thanks for that.

Would the activity of spiders diminish over a number of pages?

I'm thinking of a alphabetical index, do you think the mid to latter letters would suffer?

[creative craig]

Would the activity of spiders diminish over a number of pages?

Depends on how many pages we are talking about here and how many links they will have pointing to them! If there are only going to be a few links pointing to these pages then expect it to take a while to find and index, the more links you point to them the quicker they will get found and included.

[peewhy]

I'm looking at 200 links on one page at the moment.

I suppose I'm seeking the most effective ratio of links per page.

50 links over 4 pages ...would that be better or worse that say, 33 links over six pages.

Any idea?

[creative craig]

For management size I would keep it to 33 links per page, easier for users and more pages for search engines.

[peewhy]

Many thanks Craig, excellent advice. Much appreciated.