Multiple links to the same URL

how does Google count them?

[guezo2]

Let's say a page A has 20 outward links. 2 of them link to another page B. Does the page A's contribution to page B's PR doubled compared to a situation where there would be only 1 link from A to B?

Does someone have seen any evidence of this? Any example?

[Knowles]

I think that would actually look bad to them and be considered spam, to make sure I understand right you are saying PAGE A has 20 links to PAGE B. It might work if you had page 1-20 with links to page B that way they are not all on the same page, but it would still probably fall into spam if their is no meaningful content.

[Slud]

I'm betting google agregates all the anchor text contained in the links.

To google, I guess these would be "worth" the same to the target page (assuming there were no other links on the page):

<link>foo</link> & <link>sna</link>

vs.

<link>foo sna</link>

[guezo2]

Knowles, you have misunderstood my question. Let's formulate it again:

Page A has 20 outward links to several other sites. One of this site has a page B linked two times by page A.
I'm wondering if the contribution of page A to the PageRank of page B is better than if page A would only have 1 link to page B?

[NotNervous]

I'm wondering if the contribution of page A to the PageRank of page B is better than if page A would only have 1 link to page B?

In your dreams.

[soapystar]

we already know the more links you have on a page then then the more that page is diluted for giving out its pr...its a fair bet that two links to the same page simply mean they carry %50 weight each so add up to the same thing..or even slightly less!

[vitaplease]

Having two links to one and the same page should be perfectly legit.

Do not forget many pages have very nice graphical/educational images with "click-on-the-image" possibilities followed by a normal underlined textual link underneath. Or a logo linking home on the top left, with underneath the page the conventional "home" textual link.

On the voting effect, I would guess Google would either count the link as one or as 2/20 th.

Also do not forget the original Pagerank formula is many years old. Who says the dilution effect of the amount of links is linear?
The dilution effect could also be different from an index/home page compared with a regular internal page.