Regarding site architecture, if I add a sub-nav button to a main-nav link that appears once the main link is clicked, is the sub-nav link considered “1 click away” from the home page? In other words, does adding a sub-nav menu flatten out the site's architecture?

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Mike Taylor
Indianapolis Real Estate | Carmel Real Estate |My REW Blog

Let's see:

1) From home page, click on a main nav link to go to a main link page.
2) Sub-nav links are then displayed on main link page's menu.
3) Click on sub-nav link to get to the sub-page.

That looks like 2 clicks away to me. The total click count is determined after you arrive at a page, not when its link is displayed.

Now look a another menu structure, where the main menu has drop-down sub-menus that are displayed when the mouse floats over the main link:

1) Float mouse over main link, then when the sub-menu drops down, user selects and clicks one of the sub-menu links.
2) The sub-page is immediately displayed.

That is one click away from the main page. Now whether or not the SEs see it that way is an interesting question. If the sub-menu drop down is pure browser side html, all present in the page source when the browser loads it, then the html hyper links for all sub-pages should be readily visible to the SE's spider when the page is crawled. How they would be seen if they are some kind of scripting language, I don't know.

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