Benefits of reducing on page links

[ntcma]

This is more of a discussion point.

What would be the measurable results of reducing the number of on page links, specifically on a home page, but let's assume by way of a large navigation menu most of the pages have a lot of links"

For instance, would any of the stats on the MozBar be affected (let's start with the home page). Would the Page Authority or MozRank change at all, perhaps because there is less "juice" flowing out of the home page?

Thanks!

[ntcma]

Thanks for the thoughts.

[EGOL]

This is just personal opinion and kind of speculative... (you know there is a lot of "art" in SEO... 

I think that the authority of your site or lack of authority will have a much greater impact upon the rankings of your individual pages than the number of links on your homepage or any other page for that matter.

So, I add as many links as I think will be valuable to my visitors.

I think that if you have a large info site, having a homepage like the Los Angeles Times will do more to entice your visitors to engage your site than a homepage that tries to funnel all of your PageRank into a few trophy pages.   The fact that most nascent sites get almost all of their traffic from longtail queries supports this idea in my opinion.

Done in an enticing way, a lot of links to internal pages seems to engage more visitors, lead to more sales and bring in more traffic on all of the sites that I manage.

I want my visitors to say... "Wow!  They have a lot of great stuff on this site."

I spend lots of time trying to give my visitors more relevant and attractive options and zero time trying to funnel pagerank by reducing on-page linkage.

Don't let an obsession with SEO squeeze the sex appeal out of your site.

(Don't follow this idea if your site is nothing but a bunch of crappy pages... either time to get busy or time to pack it in.... your days are numbered.)

[goodlegaladvice]

by reducing the amount of homepage links it would allow more juice to flow to pages you leave so you should see better stats and rankings for the pages left linked on the homepage..

So if your keyword of a page was at serp 5 and you made the change and it went to 3 you know more homepage juice went to that page.

I also notice a pagerank change sometimes if the homepage is like a 5+