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Thanks for the reply;

I'm not sure I understand correctly or that I have explained myself very well!

So we're saying information should be placed into categories with related info placed into sub-categories; which we can all agree with.

My issue is category pages that will link to these related sub-categories will also have the global navigation links on also (or are we saying to remove it here?), and end up with too many links that become diluted?

Currently planning our site architecture and little confused over the management of our global navigation

To benefit from the maximum link juice to our 50-100 most important pages we are going to incorporate links to these from our homepage as part of the global navigation.

Now I understand we want nice, flat architecture; however; on these sub pages we may one day want to place another 100 of so links on these to another category level.

The problem I see arising is if we already have a bunch of links as part of our global navigation we are going to dilute the links on any sub category pages.

Now Im guessing the solution to is nofollow the global navigation on all pages other than the homepage? or do the bots recognize a global navigation as such and is able to handle this issue already?

Thanks for everyones help.

due to out database each sub category has to be assigned to a category. i.e. /abc would have to be assigned to the category ''letters'  in the url structure; so...it would be www.example.com/letters/abc .

The question is does is matter which way round the category and sub are arranged? Assuming we are optimizing for ''abc' , does it matter if we structured as;

www.example.com/letters/abc

www.example.com/abc/letters

Thanks in advance.

Thankyou for the replies.

I will try and clarify what I am trying to get at; apologies in advance for any naivety.

I understand homepage canonicalization; the confusion revolves around how this applies to internal pages.

Logically; I am struggling to see how internal pages are any different to a homepage in terms of the need to avoid multiple urls....and thus an extension-less url seemed appropriate. Not too mention the benefit or cleaner urls, easier to link to, remember etc.

i.e.

example/abc

example/abc.html

example/abc.index.html

Ok no doubt this is straightforward, however seem to be finding to hard to find a simple answer; our websites' internal pages have the extension .html. Trying to the navigate to that internal url without the .html extension results in a 404.

The question is; should a 401 be used to direct to the extension-less url to future proof? and should internal links direct to the extension-less url for the same reason?

Hopefully that makes sense and apologies for what I believe is a straightforward answer;