Does too may links in DropDown menu reduces the PR?

[trsiyengar]

I use js drop down menu, to reflect in all the pages. However, if it is in the Home page, I am told, the page rank goes down; more than 170 links are given in the dd menu, does this causes to downgrade my PR? (Presently 3/10 but no change since 3 years!) Despite making the site google friendly with many modifications, yet the PR not increased. Why so? ( www.trsiyengar.com )

Just to avoid the net blues, I had to change the Home page and dropped the dd menu from the Home page (...still in trial stage, not published yet. One can view it at www.trsiyengar.com/trial.shtml). However, all other pages carries the links to other pages; one can now avail it in a shorter menu given at the bottom of home page. Is this fine? And will this get my PR upward?

[seorocks]

i would be very very surprised of someone actually said (yes, it does have an impact on PR). Drop down menues, html/css ones, should have no impact on the spiders to scan the links and index them. i am not too sure though about the dynamic, javascript ones...

[meinking22]

Originally Posted by trsiyengar

I use js drop down menu, to reflect in all the pages. However, if it is in the Home page, I am told, the page rank goes down; more than 170 links are given in the dd menu, does this causes to downgrade my PR?

Anything like javascript, dynamic pages/links, even nested tables, that gets in the way of the bots and makes things hard/impossible to read could have an adverse effect on your SERPs. Keep in mind that SERPs and PR are very different animals. I don't think it would effect your PR much at all initially, but a negative effect on your SERPs could have an equally negative impact on your PR down the road. I agree with the poster above that recommended using CSS.

Steve

[daxesh]

If you want to increase your PR then concentrate more on getting inward links to your site and add quality content.

[incrediblehelp]

1. Who cares about your toolbar PR?

2. I work with a client now that has hundreds of links in the drop down and has PR 8, but then again who cares.

3. Now even if the drop downs are in JavaScript I have seen Googlebot spider some of these links and even the text in these links.

4. Yes CSS is the best way to go for building crawlable link menus.