Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.
Ammon Johns: "It depends" What it will depend on is the degree. Remember if you have a choice between getting one link to YOUR page, where you benefit from all of its links, or a link to a page where one link is to your page, 30+ links are their internal navigation to other of their pages, maybe 5 other links all have a mention too, that is passing on just a teeny tiny fraction of the link power to your page.
But if you could get one really good, strong, high value link to something that had linked to you, but could only get a much lower value link, with less editorial standards to link directly, then even a teeny tiny fraction of the high value link may be worth dozens or even hundreds of the small, low value links you`d get directly.
What`s Better? Creating more backlinks OR making backlinks stronger by creating backlinks for them as well? 
