Internal ring links

Does this affect ratings

[jcsuper]

Can anyone give me an answer.
We have one site, which has structure in internal links as ring. So you can reach any page from any page, something like right pane menu which is the same on all pages. We have a guess that this isn't good for Yahoo ratings, as our site isn't present in it. We are in process of building new site with same structure and we want to avoid this, if it is not good for Yahoo.
Can anybody advice me?

One more question:
We have over 130000 back links in Yahoo, while our competitors have only max 5000. Can this affect our ratings? Have we to lower the amount of these links?

Regards in advance

[jcsuper]

Nobody can advice? :(

[webhound]

nope this is normal practice. as long as your not talking about a site with 500 pages, in that case I'd suggest only linking to main pages from every page.

As long as the crawlers can crawl through the entire site from any page. ie no orphan pages.

[jcsuper]

Thanks for reply. Our site is more than 5000 pages, and we have right menu pane, that is present on every of these pages. We can only suppose that this affect so big amount of links 130000. We want to avoid this practice with our new site, if this affect.

[topr8]

do you mean you have 5000 links on every page?

do not do this.

[JekaCh]

<quote>webhount wrote: "as long as your not talking about a site with 500 pages, in that case I'd suggest only linking to main pages from every page."</quote>
It is highly interesting.
Why you have this opinion? Please tell me (us).
What can happen if the site grows?
What can happen if the site has more than 500 pages?
Regards in advance :)

[jcsuper]

NO we don't have 5000 links on every page, but the right pane with 20 links to main pages is present on every of these 5000 pages

[topr8]

having links to 20 main categories from every page is common practice and not harmful.

but it may not be the best way of doing things. look into "theme pyramids" this might be better for you.