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Hi All,

I have an e-commerce website with thousands of unique pages.

The site is built with quick access through the navigation bar to the main product categories.

All of the product pages have navigation trees in them.
What happened is that in one of the main categories I have so many pages (products) that it actually gets more links than the home page - it is getting the links both from the menu (in each page in the site) and from the product pages that belong to that category whereas the homepage gets only the one link from the menu.

Is that OK or should I add a level in the navigation tree that points to the homepage?

Thanks

Dear Egol,

Thank for the reply. I'm guessing my example for product guides was not exact.
These are not guides but rather certificates of authentication which the customers expect to see. Some I have in PDF's, some in JPG's and some I refer to a cetificate page in another site. The question is what to do...

I currently use "nofollow" links on all types of certificates (jpg, pdf and links to other site). What do you suggest to do?

I was considering either window.open (which I fear would look spammy) or leaving it as is...

Thanks

I don't think having them indexed would do me any good.

The important page is the product page itself - the way I see it, there is no good reason to lose link juice for these guides...

I'm trying to improve my sites overall performance.

Important note...

Also, I have some cases where the manuals are pages on the manufacturer's site. Should I change these links from follow to JS links in order not to lose the juice from my site to other sites?

Due to your answer I checked and I see that some of the PDF's are indexed.

I didn't know that Google does that.
It is probably from the time that the links were not "nofollow".

Should I exclude them using robots.txt?

Hi All,

I run an e-commerce website with thousands of products.
In each product page I have a link to a PDF guide of that product.

Currently we link to it with a "nofollow" <a href="">tag.</a>

<a href="">Should we change it to window.open in order not to lose link juice?

Thanks</a>