There’s usually nothing unique or interesting about the content on these pages; they were added merely to help rank for certain keywords. Unfortunately, these pages create an adverse effect when it comes to SEO in general. This is because anyone who lands on these pages is just as likely to leave your site or jump to a different page.

As we’ve all heard, search engines use site performance metrics, like ‘traffic volume’ or ‘pages viewed per visit’, as part of how they rank websites. This part of the algorithm is typically referred to as Domain Authority and it’s an important part of the ranking algorithm. What most agencies selling to the collision repair industry don’t talk about is that Domain Authority ranking is distributed via the site structure and internal linking of the website. What this means in English is that Google doesn’t like businesses that not only have pages that aren’t being visited but also includes them in their main navigation bar!

What you need to realize is that search engines don’t want to send people to pages, or even websites, that contain little to no value. And especially to pages that no one visits. This is why having top-level navigation bar elements that no one visits is incredibly detrimental to your SEO strategy.