Are too many internal links (menus links, footer links, etc.) considered "duplicate content"? [closed]

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I have a horizontal top navigational bar that contains links with menus and submenus to the pages on my site. These are included in my master pages and resource files.

I also have a vertical menu with the same links to the same pages.

I also have some links (legal, contact, etc.) in my footer.

The reason I have my website set up like this is because many of my clients are older engineers who aren't too savvy with the internet, and this gives makes the website "easier to navigate" for those types of viewers.

Perhaps this photo will make things more clear:

My question is, is that am I being potentially punished, SEO-wise, by SE bots for having "duplicate content", or "duplicate links"? If so, is it recommended that I just take the vertical menu in the left column down and put other things there? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

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No, this is not duplicate content.

Duplicate content is about larger amounts of text (non markup). Virtually every site has some duplicate, usually on every page, for stuff like headers and footers. That is not what Google or the Panda update is concerned with.