Do multiple links from one page to another page count?

[ryanunderdown]

I think Matt is hedging his answer here:

"according to the original formula" of pagerank ....

I don't think that quite qualifies as a definitive answer.

[MissoulaCarpet]

What about First Link Priority?

[00lucky7]

wikipedia must have a page rank of 100000000000000000

[ghanachild]

It's always good being creative than tricky.

[DigitecSEOClass]

Thanks for clarifying this Matt. You're absolutely right, writing good content and logically linking pages within your site are not only good for visitors to your site but they make Googlebots happy too!

[JANciJ]

Exists any way, how can I provide Slovak subtitles to this video?

I asked this in webmaster central, but i didn't get required answer.

[webseoanalytics]

Hi Matt. Even if it looks like a PR Sculpting question it's mainly a question on how Google currently handles multiple links. Unfortunately you focused only how the initial academic paper described PageRank. Please note that the original Paper did not clarify how self-links & multiple votes were handled and that is why several other academic papers were published to study these cases (Inside PageRank by Bianchinι, Gori & Scarselli).

[santuwebstr]

I dont think This is REAL Matt :PSeriously LOL here.. I was in wrong impression about multiple links on the same page :D ..

He said the first part loudly real loudly

[sporkmarketing]

I think he answered the question perfectly. He said that none of it really matters...because it doesn't.

[PsychoPatrickBateman]

Unless I've misinterpreted this video it's still an indirect answer, since he's talking about the original formula for PageRank. He doesn't talk about the current formulation which I suspect has changed, and instead focuses on usability (which isn't a bad thing, but doesn't answer the question).

[jeffyablon]

Holy COW!

Matt, the first half of this is the most direct answer to the kind of question you usually answer indirectly I've ever seen you kick up! Seriously? you can mold the value of your PageRank that way and you're saying so out loud?

Umm . . . but yeah, what you said afterward is sure right, huh? Valuable content means more than anything else!

[SEOMofo]

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[whichgroup]

So you can link multiple times from one page to another and it benefits. I got the impression previously that multiple links were discounted.

[gorangrooves]

@whichgroup Well, if you had only page B linking to page A (with links to no other pages), then it wouldn't matter if you had just 1 link or 10000 links. It would still pass the same amount of link juice. I suppose it is different when there are more pages involved, since (as Mat says) all links get equal amount of juice. Therefore some pages may get 2/4 of the total juice, while others get 1/4 (for example).