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Hi Stephen,

Thanks for your reply.  I understand your message, and I am not that concerned about PR. However when you compare search results  (urls that are ranking for certain keywords) PR is still a ranking factor. I know it is only one of the many, but it is still there. Now I can also see that sites with good internal linking structure have better "toolbar" PR breakdown, than sites without it (I am comparing sites with no external links to these deep links).

So if there is no pagerank sculpting, why do these pages have PR in the first place?

Also what is the current situation with "nofollow" links in terms of the above?

What is currently the best practice to not let pagerank flow to policy, contact and other less important pages on an e-commerce website? Pages have to be visible on the home page, (currently in the footer) so unfortunately they cannot be moved to a "single" url.

How likely is that a PR5 home page can sculpt PR4 first category pages if the # of outgoing links are at a reasonable number and structured well?

Currently the home page is PR5, but category pages are only PR3  - and not structured properly...

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for your reply.  I understand your message, and I am not that concerned about PR. However when you compare search results  (urls that are ranking for certain keywords) PR is still a ranking factor. I know it is only one of the many, but it is still there. Now I can also see that sites with good internal linking structure have better "toolbar" PR breakdown, than sites without it (I am comparing sites with no external links to these deep links).

So if there is no pagerank sculpting, why do these pages have PR in the first place?

Also what is the current situation with "nofollow" links in terms of the above?