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Thank you for the awesome response - i appreciate it.

The thing is - though its true that nearly all the targeted pages are fully optimized (URL, title tag, H1, etc) and the links are globally placed in the footer...

couple things to point out:

1. All of the footers are identical repeated on every page across the site
2. the links are displayed as a list of brands not as a piece of of content instead its all just text links with the anchors being Ford cars, GM Cars, etc;

I know this was a pretty soild way to control the link juice a few years back - im just wondering if thats still the case ? or is it actually a negative thing to do and can it cause more harm than good.

Thank you

Our site is dynamic in nature we have tens of thousands of indexed pages with  numerous individual brands pages - all of the brand pages are equally important.

We are trying to distribute link juice to those pages as much as possible - so my question is --- Is it smart and or useful or perhaps damaging or spammy to have a space on the bottom of each page throughout our site with links to each and every single brand page ? is this practice considered as duplicate content etc ?