Content linking ?

[BobAnderson]

If you have links on the left hand side of the website on the Navigation and content at the bottom of the page and link to the same page with different anchor text or the same would it help the page (as it is surrounded by similar text) or is the first one counted and this is it?

[sunny.popali]

See how google index your page, if you are linking same pages with diff anchor from one page - then beware of Google's penguin update.

Google is hammering for overly optimized pages. To your question - I think google will see first link discovered on page.