ECommerce Google PR mystery

[SharewarePros]

Dear all,

Our eCommerce site has the following structure

Home .. PR=5

Category .. PR=4 (linked from home)

Sub-Category Linked from Category PR=Un-ranked

The domain has several years and perform well the site is here: http://tinyurl.com/5v9hrql

Any idea or suggestion?

Thank you

Claudio

[TakeshiYoung]

How do you get to the sub category pages? I don't see any links except to coupon pages, which do have PR.

[SharewarePros]

Dear Takeshi,

This is the Home Page http://tinyurl.com/5v9hrql (PR=5) which links to the first category Audio and Multimedia (PR=4) http://tinyurl.com/m8c8zzz and it links to the related subcategories all PR=0 for example Rippers and Converters http://tinyurl.com/la9cjcl the same occurs with all subcategory pages across the site, any idea or suggestion, I feel something is wrong and I can't figure what.

Claudio

[BrightHealth]

For the crawler to reach coupon sub categories, there are many many other links throughout each page in the retrieval process. If you want these pages to receive more authority restrict the total number of links offered on the page, perhaps limit the number of coupons within the paginated display.

I'm going to recommend using a heatmapping tool or digging into analytics. Figure out where people are clicking on your site and where you have wiggle room to remove some of the options within the template layout.

[SharewarePros]

Thank you for your response, I have a few questions:

1. heatmapping tool (you refer to sitemap.xml and it submitted to Google) ?

2. Remove options withing template layout, do you thing we can remove on the category pages the links included into the head (starting with Home ... Promo Codes) and the other starting with MAC OS ... Flash ?

3. Also use less pagination actually we are using 14 pagination links (remove them to 5)?

Waiting for your ideas

Thank you

Claudio