What will Google think

[metastones]

PR up one and more of my key phrases coming up on page one at the moment - may it last :)

Problem is in altering my site I took a few pages out of the navigation and left them up but of the navigation bar until I decided if they were necessary. They have a hyperlink to my main product page but no other links to my pages.

Two of these pages are appearing high on Google .

Question? Should I reintegrate them ito the main navigation or just included an added hyperlink to the specific products that they refer to. They each have a PR equivalent to my home page at the moment .

[James D. Brausch]

You need to find out if those pages earned their PR from outside links or if it was just a pass-me-down from your own home page in order to have the right information to make that decision.

The way to do this would be to use the "link:" command on each of the pages which are no longer in your navigation bar. For instance, if your domain is domain.com and one of the pages you removed from the nagivation bar is called page1.html, enter the following on the Google search page:

link:www.domain.com/page1.html

Take a look at the results. Are they all because of links from your own site? If so, then feel free to leave these pages unlinked. If the links are from outside sources directly to page1.html, then you should do one of the following:

1. Contact the owners of the websites linking to you and ask them to update their link to the new corresponding page. - or -

2. Put up a page which does a meta-refresh to the new page.

In either case, it doesn't really matter if the page is still in your navigation bar. If it was "pass down" PR, then that "pass down" PR will simply be passed along to other page(s) in your site.

If it was true external PR, then you don't want to lose it... but that doesn't mean you need the page in your navigation bar. It means you need to have a path for that external traffic to still get to the rest of your site.

I hope that makes sense.

James D. Brausch
Target Blaster, Inc.
http://www.TargetBlaster.com