Hello I Have a big menu on my site, this is included on each page from an external .php page, but I want sculpt the links on my site, I want control the Sitelinks. Then what I´m thinking is hide this main menu from bots but it will be visible to humans. What I have in mind is put other menu with 7 main links, all those links are goingo to the main pages I want push in organic rankings. And this main menu will be appearing on all the pages of the site. But I don´t know what is the best way to hide this big menu because I won´t use a flash menu or a javascript, I´m happy with the actual css-html menu, but I want hide it. Any idea? thansk
ha ha.. I think I just remember the solution... Easy! as simple as put nofollow on all links in the menu. Right?
Yes exactly, just nofollow the links. Although I think there was a Google anouncement recently saying that PageRank sculpting doesn't work anymore. "Matt Cutts has publicly stated that PR sculpting via NoFollow doesn’t work anymore. While he certainly doesn’t tell us everything and I wouldn’t take everything he says as gospel, I have yet to see convincing evidence to refute his claim." -Ben Cook (comment on viperchill.com blog)
Very interesting, the last year Matt wrote a long post (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/) explainig why sculpting is not a good idea because the links must flow naturally, and that is completely razonable, but in this case I need take some action to have control over the Sitelinks, and I think this is a good way, well, at least I will experiment what happend and I will tell you, if the PR Sculpting is not working any more, we will know because I will lost completely the control over Sitelinks, if not, then the PR sculpting is still alive!