Website layout and pagerank?

[bcc1234]

Hi,

Most of the sites have one or more of the following:
1) Top header
2) Left menu
3) Bottom footer

The left menu usually points to the most imporant content.
The top header - things like home, contact us, services/products etc - also important.

And the bottom footer points to crap like about us, disclamer, privacy statement...

So if evey page on the site has a link to privacy statement, does it mean the privacy page will have higher pr than most of secondary pages on the site ??

Hmm, now thinkng about it WW site has:
Terms of service ¦ Privacy Policy ¦ About

at the bottom of every page :)

So should we all start putting keywords into privacy statements ??

[SmallTime]

If you are selling lingerie I could see how you might manage that. I haven't noticed a plethora of privacy statements in the search results, but if you want to lure visitors to yours, sure, give it a try.
Getting external links might be tough.

[brotherhood of LAN]

Privacy policies etc are of no real value to the user ....while they are still searching. They are maybe more useful if they actually want to read privacy policies and not buy widgets or whatever :)

I put all those sort of pages in one "site" folder, and available from the home page but excluded by robots.txt......

[stuntdubl]

Can you please explain why it would be of BENEFIT to exclude pages from being spidered?

[ciml]

stuntdubl, it is widely believed that if you prevent some pages from being spidered, then the PageRank that would be given to those pages goes to the other pages in your site (broadly speaking).

There is some confusion regarding whether the unspidered pages, if listed, reduce the rank of the other pages.

[stuntdubl]

I have also noticed from the discussions that 'outbound' links can only reduce your pagerank. Does anyone have a good javascript for outbound links to keep the PR of your pages?

[Knowles]

stuntdubl, any JS link would do this for the most part. The only probably you will find in trading links people will not do it. They want the increase in Page Rank. If you are giving them any they arent going to give you any.

[luma]

Also remember there are "tricks" that help you Presenting your main content first [diveintoaccessibility.org].

[stuntdubl]

Wow....great tip luma....that one never even occured to me.....these are the types of things you jus' can't come accross all on your own.....This forum rules! I'm gonna get some top 10 listings yet! Thanks a bunch, and I hope that I can help everyone else as much as you guys have helped me sometime.

[stuntdubl]

Almost forgot.....Knowles.....
I am just going to use the script for links that aren't reciprocal links, and I was wondering if anyone had seen a good script for that anywhere, as I have been unable to find one yet (as simple as it seems it should be)

[bcc1234]

like document.write("<a href.....") ?
that kind of script ?

[stuntdubl]

I know I'm gonna look like a complete moron here, but programming is so frustrating to me sometimes, and I don't know javascript enough except to copy and paste it from working code. How would I do this on individual links with anchor text???

[bcc1234]

<script language="javascript">
document.write("<a href='...'>...</a>");
</script>

should work