What you think??

What is your opinion? Do you believe that the more links pointing to your site give you higher search positions? I am referring to sitewide links. For example you have sitewide links from 4 sites with 10,000 pages each so you have 40,000 links. Or you have one link from the homepage of each of these same 4 sites so you have 4 links. Would it make a difference? Is each link from the same site counted only one time meaning one link per site counted no matter how many links you have from that site?

I think it counts like you have 40000 links, only links from the index pages are much stronger than others, of course if the relevancy is similar.
On the other hand 40000 links from 40000 different sites would give you much more benefit.

It is not all about quantity though it still counts, but as I found out..having a high % of relevant links counts more to Google than having massive amount of low quality links if you are talking about ranking.

http://www.smart-traffic.co.uk/seo-research/2008/07/30/latest-google-inbound-link-analysis-study-july-2008/

From a newbie's point of view, I think what really counts are the quality and relevance of the links. Links pointing to your site is useless if those links came from a page that doesn't get ranked at all and show no relevance to the site it is pointing.

Imagine a container sharing no water to the other container. It's useless.

Sitewide links have a higher chance of suspicion by Google as being biased or in other words paid links. I was involved with a very small study, not totally conclusive but in my mind greatly sustained my belief that sitewide links are worth less than one link on the same site. The results showed that one link from a highly related content page, where the link was placed deep in the content to look as unbiased as possible saw a higher increase in ranking than when the study was flipped and the same link was placed sitewide... again the study was small and could be considered insufficient but my point in sharing it is that I believe that Google places a much higher weight on individual "votes" or links in what appears to be a natural and related position over sitewide links on the same site... even though it is highly related.

Natural links will always win so anything which comes close to that or appears to be natural is going to trump those methods which Google flags as biased such as sitewide links.