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I've actually found site-wide links to have detrimental effects when tested. I usually go for in-content links.

We ran a test linking a new domain (lets say it was asdfdfhfgj.com) and found out that the second anchor text to the same url bears a lot less weight than the first one. We linked asdfdfhfgj.com from a respected domain/page. Two links, different anchor texts. Both anchor texts where random strings that previously returned no results on Google. For the first months the page only ranked for the first random string, not the second. This is obviously just one data point but it does suggest something about the way Google treats links to identical urls from a single page. However, this effect is far from a penalty and I doubt Google would ever penalize for having two links to an identical url on one page.