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Addison,

This is an awesome modification. I have not tried it yet but it make sooo much sense. Thank you Thank you for sharing.

One question...I only have manufacturers some of my more important products but it still is a list of about 30 manufacturers. How does having these in a dropdown on the left side compare to the default static links when it comes to SEO. One of the main reasons I created the manufacturers pages was for SEO purposes (and to help customers), but I struggle with only showing a reasonable number of them (about 10) on the left hand side using the default display. Especially since the same 10 are always displayed, so crawlers only see those 10.

I wondered (briefly) if there was an easy way to make the 10 displayed random from the list of 30+ as a potential SEO solution.

But if the crawlers can find the links in the dropdown that you've provided here just as easy, then I think you have the BEST solution.

Thanks again, great post!