Can Adding Content/Links On Your Site Lower Its Rank?

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This may or may not be a stupid question.

Either way I need to know the answer.

If you add 20-40 pages of content to your site, then link those pages to the home page in navigation, aren't those pages technically draining SEO juice from the home page?

Has anyone tested this before (I'm sure a bunch of people have)? Where you take a good ranking url, then upload a ton of content to it? Even if the link juice flows both ways, isn't it still becoming diluted amongst all the new content thats on the site?

I'm very curious about this. Especially considering that when my site had less pages, it was ranking much better.

Thanks! - Red
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  • Profile picture of the author AmazonGuy
    That usually happens in the first 2-3 months of adding new content. It should even out when you are building on page links to related content and in general building authority. Don't worry to much about it if you target your keywords and your content is any good, keep going , social share and build a link here and there.
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  • Profile picture of the author zenichanin
    You should be building backlinks to those subpages as well so that they're not using all the juice from the homepage. It's all about relevancy. What are the 20 extra links for? Are they really all relevant to the homepage? If it's a blog, you would have like 20 latest articles on the homepage all the time, but they switch out when newer articles are posted. You shouldn't just keep cramming new links though.
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