Theme based website internal links

What to do with contact, about, privacy etc. pages

[steve]

I'm building a themed site based on Brette's pyramid layout.

I think I've got to grips with the 'keep links vertical' principal.

But what I don't get, is what to do with those pages I want to link to from every page. I.e. contact us, about us, and a link back to the homepage in the top left hand corner.

Is it best not to sweat it, and accept the pyramid is never going to be perfect, hide the links with Javascript, or do they have so little effect that they are not an issue?

Any comments?

Steve

[LearningNow]

I don't sweat these pages and link them from each page as needed. I do place a <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"> tag on those pages because I don't want people entering the site from any of these.

[Natko]

personaly I interlink all of them. why not? one vote more.
Just opimize those pages for what they are and nobody will "missenter"

[Mr Bo Jangles]

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">

Typo I think - should be "noindex,nofollow"

[Etienne]

Use these pages to link to internal pages with other keywords. Let say you have a link from your home page to your "red-widget.html" page with "red widget" as anchor text. Use your "about us" to link to that same "red-widget.html" page, but with other kerwords or permutation or plurials:

We make coloured widgets [example.com] and other blablabla...

I never tested this, but I suppose people at Google think a link from a "no index" page has less value than a link from a normal page.