Should I Be Concerned about Too Many Links in Interview?

[cojo]

I was contacted recently from a small online magazine (DA 17) who wanted to interview me about my area of expertise. Although it's not a high authority site, I gladly accepted, conducted the interview, and he posted it on his site today.

Throughout the course of the final interview article, he linked to my website 5 times. Once in the intro, and 4 times in reference to different answers I gave. At this point, I'm wondering if it looks like a spammy guest post, even though it was legitimately conducted.

Should I ask him to remove some of the links so it doesn't look spammy? I feel kinda bad because he's not trying to do anything fishy.

If you want to see the referenced article, you can check it out here:

http://mensmagdaily.com/counting-cards-colin-of-blackjackapprentice-com-shows-us-the-ropes/

[Mike.NW]

Hi Cojo,

The standard guideline/rule of thumb is 100 links per page. I believe Google also looks at the percentage of links to content. With the page provided having a ton of content and only 5 links, I do not see a problem at all.

In other words you are GOOD TO GO!

Also, just found this blog post by MOZ.

http://moz.com/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

All the best

[Cyrus-Shepard]

There's no right answer to this, but here's my take.

The links seem perfectly fine, and natural, to me. They don't contain overly-optimized anchor text. In fact, most link to you with URL anchors, which are generally considered safe.

Even if the links had more precise anchor text, it's usually not a problem unless there is a pattern of unnatural links. If you haven't already, I highly suggest reading this post from Rand:

Dear Google, Links from YouMoz Don't Violate Your Quality Guidelines

Including the first comment, from Marie Haynes, where she pretty successfully defines an "unnatural" link:

• -Intent to manipulate the Google search results
• -Whether it is part of a large pattern of similar links

Regardless, hope this helps. Best of luck with your SEO!

[cojo]

Thanks guys. Great answers!