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Hi Bfrent, Sorry to trouble you again. I'm gradually working through your suggestions, I'm keen to get to back to where i was and beyond, but don't want to try to many changes at once. Realistically what  review period should I give each change? how long do I give google to revie and reindex? I ask, because the site is bouncing about all over the place at the moment, page 6 | Page 2 | page 22 | Page 14.... Thanks in advance GTN

Hi Naghirniac, Thanks for responding... For this site the long tail keywords would be the anchor text of Pg1, Pg2 & Pg3 (breadcrumbs). The detail pages should have breadcrumb links like so - site home page > Pg1 > Pg2 > detail page Which would work for long tail keywords? If so, the actual homepage breadcrumb, do I just use 'Home' or is there something more constructive that I could use possibly. The site currently has 3500+ pages listed on Google, I was hoping to capitalise on how all but one of these link back to the most important page -- the home page... Any thoughts greatly appreciated.. Thanks again for your time

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Sorry, by "bigger problems" I just meant the potential link-farm. The nofollow will remove the SEO risk - you'll still lose a little link-juice to those links, but you won't get penalized down the road for having them. Of course, you won't gain any SEO value from the cross-linking either. At this point, though, I think that's inevitable. The risk is greater than the reward from cross-linking this many domains. Any other ways to block the links are going to look more suspicious to Google than nofollow (including iFrames). Any I can think of would be best avoided in this scenario. Any way you can contextually cross-link would create less SEO risk and potentially let you get some ranking value out of the connections. That's why I suggested links at the job listing level. I think that might benefit users a bit more, too. Even then, you don't want to go overboard.