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I think you need to get more clear concept about nofollow. Most of the time people think about passing link juice. ask youself; are all those links important for your visitors and all those pages linked from left bar important too, if so then why nofollow. You are giving your visitor the right thing.  Having said that you need to rethink about links too sometimes we think having many links on one page will benefit visitors, in reality its wrong. you need to design your site navigation in such a way where ppl can easy go from one page to another page. Usability is key too. Group your links, pages and content and design everything from customer prespective. Google love sites, which are develop for customers. Anyways nofollow is not and never been a solution, inshort most of the people have wrong concepts about nofollow.

Hope this will make some sense to you.

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Thanks for your reply. You are talking about product pages, which is very specific. I am talking about category and subcategory pages where products are in grids, those pages are for main kws.

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How important on site/page contents are for ecommerce site. Keeping in mind the page layout.

1. Its not that important to have page copy/content at all for ecommerce sites

2. If yes, does position of content is an important factor?

3. if putting page copy/content in upper fold of a page then the most important thing which is product itself will have less exposure

4. if putting near the footer of the page, does that seem like doing just for the sake of SEs and ranking.

5. How important internal linking form that content would be compare to left panel links or links at the header of a website

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Rick