Does Google penalize sites with to many links on home page?

If they are relevant links that add the overall user experience then no.

 

duplicate contents are penalized by google

 

when someone visits your site then one question needs to be answered which is not good for SEO perspective, though you have a high PR rank website. Congratulation.

your inbound links should be higher than outbound links. So if its yes then you don't have to worry.

 

No not really. Google does not penalize if there are lot of links on the homepage. But it is recommended not to exceed more than 100 backlinks on the homapge.

 

You DO NOT have too much links, plus they are all to inner pages - it is absolutely OK!
As already said, try to keep them up to 100, although I have a site with ~200 links to inner/destination pages and it is still ok - all inner pages indexed and with equal PR.
The issue with many links could be more for visitors inconvenience, but in my case that is the better way to go...

p.s. it would be good to have and some text content on you home page (in your case redirected) along with the links!

Good luck with your site

 

I don't think that penalize links! You just need to add them on natural way (no 10 at the same time, but 2 in one month for example).

 

This is not possible that Google penalize home page for this reason.

 

Actually Google panda is a new algorithm that works against the website which contains low quality articles. Copy pasted articles also traced by Panda if you find any problem please contact me in skype:faizykk