Ah, I like that solution! I think I have the same feeling about the page as you do...and Matt Cutts has even mentioned having a dim view of Top Hits pages that lets people manipulate results to get on a page with better page rank. I was thinking about deleting the page altogether or nofollowing the outbound links...why didn't you just nofollow the outbounds (you still would have had the 'read more' link to inner pages, right)? I wonder if that would have had the same effect on indexing...

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Ultra - I think that deleting the page all together is a solution also. I know people that have done just that. As I said though I kind of like having that page there for visitors to see the more popular pages all in one location. For that reason I had to come up with something else.

I did not want to use no follow there so the only real alternative was to point the links to a location that did not give a site benefits for manipulating their hit count. I already limited the number of hits that could be counted in a 24 hour span, but that was not enough. When I can go to other directories and find some of the same sites on the top hits page there it tells me that someone is running up the hits to get listed on that page.

To me pointing the links on just those pages to the details pages was a great way to go and the indexing proves it. I do know that the read more link was already pointed to the details page, but how else can the roughly 15% better indexing be exlained after turning them internal?

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