: What ways can I modify my large website navigation menu to allow me to Silo properly? I currently have a large site navigation in the header of my site which links 3 levels deep in a large

@Nimeshi995

In this day and age you should never use the nofollow attribute on internal links to try and manipulate the flow of PR between pages it will only decrease your rankings because Google will place a hefty penalty on the site. It's worth mentioning that PR doesn't directly increase your search rankings and is one of hundreds of elements that it uses, so even a high PR page can have a penalty and be seen no where in the rankings.

If you do not want certain pages eating the JUICE up then simply don't index them, or if they ain't very good remove them all together from the site.

You are right the deeper the links the less flow of Juice they receive - you can use this to your advantaged by not linking to the deeper pages, for example:

Page B link is on Page A
Page C link is on Page B
Page D link is on Page D

Juice will be eaten up the time to gets to D meaning the more juice is flowed from the Root domain to pages A and B mostly. But realistically all pages can be ranked well if they are good and your visitors want to link to them.

Personally if you have low value pages and you want more value to other pages consider removing those with a Good old 404, or merging 2 pages and making the first page even better.... However in some cases a page might not be very useful to most people and weight little to the search engines - if this is the case then you should use a meta robots on the page such as

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


This will tell Google and other Bots to not only index the page but pass page rank should anyone decide to link to that non-indexable page. It's worth noting that if you do not index these pages then the chances are they want be factored in when calculating your authority of the content you have, but it will pass juice if passed.

It's also worth mentioning that nofollow was originally designed for the purpose your referring to but many months later Google change their mind as people were abusing, the tag is now designed for external links - so you do not pass juice to them - Do not control your PR flow, its unnatural and very easy to detect. Focus on more constructive SEO like writing more good content ;)

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