Is it helpful for seo to have helpful links at the footer?

[SIMON-CULL]

HI,

suppose my homepage has good content but no external links to  other sites for more info. and no helpful internal links in the footer to  learn more.

and my competition has 9 internal links in the footer  which links  to other pages on the site

who has more SEO boost?

I know the answer , does it really makes a difference or its minute?

[Vanderlindemedia]

With links to internal pages, your equally distributing the linkjuice. Lets say if i have a top menu and i'm listing my top 10 pages there, those will obviously get a tad better juice then 1 link from 1 page alone.

So yes it adds up to have Learn more pages listed on top and bottom of your website. It wont make that big of a difference tho. Without incoming quality backlinks to your initial domain, it's still not worth that much really.

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[Expansyon]

At first it is said that google puts more weight on the top links of the web and that as it is downloaded it loses strength. It is a theory, really what you need are external links that point to the content of your page. These links must be of good quality in order to increase the AP of your website.