I have come just come across numerous threads on here where people are giving other people shocking advice about how in fact Google handles multiple links to the same page. If you write an article and have multiple links to the same page but with different anchor text in place Google will still only count the first one it comes across. This is why its best to links to different pages to actually make them count. This is proven and I also test it on numerous occasions to see how the algo has been tweaked etc. I MUST say alot of SEOs on here need to do alot more trial and testing to see what works and what doesnt, because people want good advice not advice that is 5 years out of date. Even looking at signature links people are linking all three links to the homepage