tedster - 5:59 am on Nov 26, 2008 (gmt 0)

p/g, I think that's a major issue. I'm pretty sure that PR affects how much weight other link related factors can have.

Too many Home Page links can also contribute to gray bar on the category page. People get so knee-jerk about the idea that a Home Page link will help a new page to rank that they go overboard and destroy the intelligence that was embedded in their original structure.

So trimming it back and restoring a sensible logic to the link structure and architecture helps eveery signal on the site to become clearer.