THis came up before (a few times) about the css menu's etc.
I think the general responses was akin to...
... how is Google meant to identify the 'important' pages in that big
list of links ? ...
Which kind of makes sense.
Technically, when we structure navigation in such a way, we are
defining groupings... parents, children, grand-children etc...
users/visitors/bots have to "drill-down".
BUT
believe it or not - the important stuff is meant to be top-level
(parent)!
This is so that visitors can easily locate such info - straight away.
This is part of the problem with getting "inner-pages" indexed.
.
So - thats the theory side covered - and the clues are there.
We already have the suggestion of nofollow.
Brilliant ... now - can we make that dynamic?
For an example... lets say we have 2 Parents... Parent1 and Parent2.
In each of those, we have Children (7 each) and Grandchildren (2 per
child)
So we have a total of 44 pages (is that right?)
That 44 is split into 2 branches.
IF I go to Parent1 -> Child3(P1) -> Grandchild2(P1C3) ...
I don't really want the bots wandering off and looking at ANYTHING in
Parent2.
In fact ... the only things i want them to look at is the sibling (the
first Grandchild of P1C3) and the immediate Ancestor (child3) ... that
way it can move sidewards and back a step - thats it.
Make sense?
Now - I'm not saying that it will work - but the logic is there ...
you should be able to control what path the bots can take. This means
you can (hopefully) stop them wandering off and looking at other
things rather than following the prescribed/logically path/branch ...
plus it means at any one time, you are automatically reducing the
number the of links that the bot should follow.
To go a step further, you could not only apply this logic to the path
being followed.... but to the depth as well.
Make the menu so that it only allows 1 step from current.
So if you are at Root and looking at the 2 Parents... the only links
you could follow are to the Parent pages...
If you are on a Parent page, the only places you could go is to the
other Parent pages, the child of the current Parent, or back to Root.
Again - this means we should be able to focus the bots attention on
what we want.
.
Does that make sense?
On Oct 23, 10:10 am, luzie wrote:
> >>> Does that question make sense?
> It does to me ... ;-)
> Now, that's my opinion only: i'd say they'll consider following up to
> 100 (150, whatever) links per page, regardless of where they are in
> relation to anything not crawlable (nofollowed links, javascript-
> links), be that before, after or between it.
> So the answer would be: a.!
> ;-)
> -luzie-
