Drop Downs V Lists of links

Do spiders venture through dropdowns?

[peewhy]

I have a directory with say 200 internal links per on a page....and growing.

I see two options; split the page into multiples but fear they won't get spidered as well or add dropdowns, and still fear that they won't get spidered as effectively as the single page loads of links.

Any ideas or advice?

[stapel]

Why so many links? Are they all necessary? For instance, if they break down into neat categories, instead of having pull-down menues with, say, fifty listings each (which I for one probably wouldn't try to wade through), can you have basic category listings on the "front" page, with catchy descriptions, linking to pages with listings for just that category?

Eliz.

[peewhy]

Sorry, the answer didn't relate to the question.

[topr8]

imo split the page into multiples as a preference to having drop downs ... i think multiple pages have a better chance of being spidered than drop down links.

[stapel]

: ...the answer didn't relate to the question.

My apologies: I had thought that you might also have cared about users looking at your pages, and might have wanted to design around consideration of people in addition to bots. I didn't mean to be off-topic or rude. Sorry.

To answer your question, spiders follow links, so links to other pages should work fine.

Eliz.

[peewhy]

No problem Stapel.

My major concern in spiders/robots, then visitors. I'd rather get indexed so that it can be found and work around the cosmetics later.

[bakedjake]

Any ideas or advice?

Don't put 200 internal links on a page. Figure 100 links max (combined internal and external).

[coconutz]

>>Do spiders venture through dropdowns?

Archived articles on a site I recently visited are only linked to through a drop down menu. All of them are indexed just fine.

[peewhy]

BakedJake

It wasn't intended to have 200 links, it just grew that way....hence the post.