Advanced casestudy for large amount of pages

[NeO_2001]

My website dropped badly in the current update and after looking at all the facts I presume it to be PageRank. It happened when I increased my page count from 1000 to 60,000 by adding an online shop. I lost 99% of my Google traffic and 80% of total traffic.Current site* All the articles and products also link back to homepageWhen it comes to large amount of pages PageRank is more important than I first thought. After reading the page rank paper I came up with this solution (I DO NOT NEED THE 60,000 SHOPPING PAGES TO RANK WELL IN GOOGLE):Suggested change* All the articles and products also link back to homepageDo you think this is the solution or should I take out my shop? According to what I understand from the paper my solution should make my other pages even stronger than before!?The URL is not on my sign but a good Googler should figure the URL out with some work.Thanks to awall19 to help confirm the problemJohan007 ... pretty drawings ... but I don't think this is going to address your problem.Quote:Yes I agree but I failed to say I dont really care about the shop making me money. The site is more about the articles and thats what I want to push up in the SERPS. Now what do you think? I have changed the site to the solution above but I need an expert to tell me if I should take out those extra 60,000 pages instead.rtchar wrote:The number of product pages is not relevant .... no effect on ranking.The PR on the product pages are probably too low to affect the site page rank or search rankings. However, if indexed they may provide search terms so visitors find your site.Without seeing the site --- visitors need a short path to pages of interest.If you could sort your products into 3-7 groups, create a landing page describing the group (mini home), and link these to relevant articles. Each page can query the same database using different search criteria.In the articles, if you refer to a product, add a link back to the product group.This would help flatten the structure and put your most relevant pages 1 or 2 clicks from the main page.That