Tricky: Should I remove this extra navigation?

[Ganacontrol1233]

Hello there,

I am working on a website in which the owner has written navigation links manually at the end of all pages/posts.

Example.

Page/Post Entry content.

Go to home click here,
Menu item 2
Menu item 3
Menu item 4 etc

We already have navigation links for that on the main menu and additionally on a sidebar.

But we are two years in, and they have always been there.

Is there a chance removing all these links will better internal pagerank distribution?

Website has millions of views/month so I want to be sure - if I should just leave them as is or remove them all.
Or what extra questions should I be asking myself about this.

[RickyShockley]

Hi there,

I'm not totally sure that anyone can definitively answer that question (I could be wrong), but my thought would be that those types of links, if listed on every page would probably be ignored and any real ranking impact would be extremely minimal. I can't imagine this being very important one way or the other.

If you're nervous about removing, you could always experiment a bit at a time and monitor impacts, but I wouldn't be quick to attribute results one way or the other to such a minor issue (or non-issue).

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[Ganacontrol1233]

Hi Ricky,

Thanks for your input, we are talking 8 links across 200 pages, that's 1600 internal inks. That's a lot of internal links which are in theory diluting pagerank of every page.

The paradox seems to be that if they are diluting said pagerank to the main pages of the site then I suppose it cancels itself out?

I don't mind doing these changes if we have a solid argument for or against...

[Ganacontrol1233]

Hi James,

We're trying to increase traffic even more! This in my eyes can have an effect even at a Domain authority level. 
Thanks for the words.

[Ganacontrol1233]

Hi everyone, would appreciate any further comments, thanks in advance.

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[Ganacontrol1233]

Thanks James, I really appreciate your thoughts. Would love to get confirmation from anyone else willing to chime in.