Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I have a directory which is 4 levels deep. I am considering adding the noindex follow tag to all the pages exept the deepest level. In other words I would like google to index the
widgets > blue widgets > dark blue widgeets > square dark blue widgets
but not the upper levels:widgets, blue widgts,...
I suspect that the pages that I will effectively remove from google are contributing to my index page PR as they all link to it.
Will doing so reduce my index page PR?
What you are trying to do can be acheived by not linking to the top 2 levels, but the lower 2 on your index page. But why would you want to?
PR isn't transfered back to the index page by lower levels from internal link structure unless those lower levels have inbound external links.
PR isn't transfered back to the index page by lower levels from internal link structure unless those lower levels have inbound external links.
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<double take>
PR is transferred from any page Google knows about to any page that that page links to.
External links have NOTHING to do with that transfer mechanism.
Unless you know different
In which case tell us!
DerekH
Thank you very much for the input.
After thinking about it I decided against it. But the Idea was to direct SE traffic to where the meat is rather than top level subdirectories. This as a service to SE visitors which now have to drill down to where the outbound links are.
Thank you for the reply.
But the Idea was to direct SE traffic to where the meat is rather than top level subdirectories.
Theoretically it can be achieved with more interlinking between deep level pages than backlinking from them to top level - or so I would assume according to the original PageRank theory. But clearly, your PageRank will spread among all deep level pages instead of concentrating on main pages. Even PR 10 site couldn't afford to spread PR equally through all deeper level pages.
And why do you want to direct traffic this way? Is your site about 1000 unrelated subjects, that cannot be groupped into categories and these categories optimizes for SE? Do you prefer to attract someone who looks for "blue 5 years old economic fluffy home widgets" or just someone who looks for "home widgets" and then present him with different colors, ages, exploatation costs and fluffinesses of items you write about?
I mean, it's easier to make smaller amount of pages with good SERPS, and make them so informative, that everyone can find what they're looking for when they'll enter it.
