almond widgets 20 on page Blue Widgets 1 20 on page Blue Widgets 2 20 on Page Cyan Widgets The almond widgets page passes: 4 to homepage 4 to itself 4 on page Blue Widgets 1 4 on page Blue Widgets 2 4 on Page Cyan Widgets The Blue Widgets 1 page passes: 3.33 homepage 3.33 on page almond widgets 3.33 for himself 3.33 on page Blue Widgets 2 3.33 on page Cyan Widgets 3.33 to 1/4″ page The Blue Widgets 2 page passes: 3.33 homepage 3.33 on page almond widgets 3.33 to Blue Widgets 1 page 3.33 for himself 3.33 on page Cyan Widgets 3.33 to 1/2″ page The Cyan Widgets page passes: 3.33 homepage 3.33 on page almond widgets 3.33 to Blue Widgets 1 page 3.33 on page Blue Widgets 2 3.33 on page Cyan Widgets 3.33 to page 1″ 1/4″ page passes: 1.11
homepage 1.11 on page Blue Widgets 1 1.11 to himself Page 1/2 "passes" 1.11 homepage 1.11 on page Blue Widgets 2 1.11 to himself Page 1″ passes: 1.11 homepage 1.11 on page Cyan Widgets 1.11 to himself Which gives us a final value of: Home 137.32 Almond Widgets - 33.99 Blue fax number list Widgets 1 - 35.1 Blue Widgets 2 - 35.1 Cyan Widgets - 35.1 1/4" - 4.44 1/2" - 4.44 1" - 4.44 So here we see that if we spread out our highest level, we are actually reducing the weight across the board. These are obviously simplistic examples, but they reflect how the weight shifts overall. Too wide an upper level will reduce the weight of the whole site; however,
a link structure that is too focused on leading a visitor down a linear path will also produce a storyline with too much weight at the top and bottom of the structure but not enough weight distributed across the usually critical second level ( category pages, in our example). The only structure we haven't looked at is the flat structure (which unfortunately I see way too often). In other words, a structure with massive navigation that basically connects to everything. So let's look: Flat PageRank flow. In this structure we would see: