SEO on page content links help

[BobAnderson]

I run a website at the bottom we have scroller box which the old SEO guy used to contain all of the crap content so we can rank for keywords not on the page and put all of the links in to spread the link juice into the other inner category pages (some of these pages are only listed on our innerpages otherwise).

We are trying to remove this content and add decent content above the fold with relevant long tail keywords in (it is currently decent but could do with expanding if we are removing this large chunk of text in theSEO box and some long tail keywords will be missing if we just remove it) we can add a couple of links into this new content but will struggle to list the category pages not on the left hand navigation.

If we were to list all of the pages in the left hand nav would we dilute the power going to the main pages currently or would we be in the same position we are now?

For example at the minute I would say the power is mainly going to the left hand nav links and then a small amount of power to the links in the SEO content if we put these into the nav will it not dilute the power to the main pages.

Thank you for your time and hopefully your help.

[Gyi]

I think your question is about internal linking structure. If so, check out Moz's best practices on internal linking.

In deciding which internal links to keep on the homepage, think about those links that would be most helpful to the visitors of your site.