Removing Tag Cloud to Decrease the number of On-Site Links?

[utesters]

I have website which has a tag cloud at the footer. This tag cloud or tag box has about 40 links pointing to different words(tags) pages.

I believe that the tags are hardly ever clicked on by visitors, since its at the footer.

If the tag cloud is removed would this decrease the number of on-site links? According crawl diagnostics summary I have 195 pages with too many links.

Would removing it help? And what kind changes can I expect if they removed (seo wise)?

[NakulGoyal]

Savio

It's always a good call to remove unwanted links, links that user's don't use. Sometimes these pages are thin content pages, lead to within the site duplicate content issues as well. I would strongly recommend removing the links, but then just with this change, expecting a major change, I guess not, but then it depends upon all the other metrics of your website.

It might also make sense to consider doing a no-index on them. Is this a wordpress blog ? If yes, you can use All-In-One SEO ro Yoast SEO Plugin to  noindex on you tag pages.

Then look at your website and see if you see any SERP movements and continue to audit the site and refine the structure, add new content, build links and repeat. It's a continuous process you know I am sure

I hope this helps.