No follows on flyout menu?

[Onestop]

I have both side nav links and CSS flyout menu's on every page of my site. I was considering putting no follow on each url in the flyout menu. Here is my theory. If you are on an item or category landing page the flyout menu has unrelated url's. I would rather googlebot stick with the links that are similiar in nature to the page it is on and build relevancy between the pages. I also have a theory that crawlers are spending more time on the top levels of my site due to the flyout url's appearing before others in the source code. Am I crazy or is this a good idea?

[gobeyond]

I don't think this is necessary. You do want google spiders to crawl your whole site. Putting "nofollow" tag can prevent the spider from seeing the rest of the site.

[Onestop]

Originally Posted by gobeyond

I don't think this is necessary. You do want google spiders to crawl your whole site. Putting "nofollow" tag can prevent the spider from seeing the rest of the site.

That seems to be the standard response others are giving me. I'm not trying to argue one side or the other, but here is the antithesis...
I am not closing off those url's to google. I am simply controlling how they are found and what links they are associated with. Bots can still find them when crawling. I would just be funneling the path they take instead of giving them free range to link unrelated parts of the site as direct backlinks when they should really be 2nd or 3rd cousins (excuse my lack of technical terminology).

[sitetruth]

I don't think that Google cares much about the internal organization of your site for ranking purposes.

We (as Sitetruth) like to be able to easily find the "about" or "contact" page with the business address starting from the home page. There are some other engines that care about site structure. But that doesn't seem to be a Google priority. Google does seem to prefer home pages over other pages, though.

It's an interesting issue for some searches. Try searching for "catastrophic health insurance". You'll get mostly bogus domaining and lead generation sites. The big insurance companies which actually offer such products have them on pages hidden deep inside their own sites. So they get lower ranking.