Too many links??

[RyanC1]

Hi mozzers

I have a question that I need some feedback on please, I run 2 websites both e commerce retail sites and both doing well with SEO however, Our strongest site and parent site so to speak links to our sister site.

Here is the  outline.

Site1 parent site is hosted on a unique URL and on a VPS. I have 384 links coming into this site from the other sister site. from various pages

Site 2 the sister site, has 68,864 links coming in from site 1 as we have a link in the footer on site 1 to the home page of site 2.

So far we have had no adverse affects from the Google zoo releases, however I am concerned that this many links will soon get penalized.

Thoughts from anyone please? I am considering removing the footer link, thus removing 68,000 + incoming links.

Looking for any advice here please.

thanks

Ryan

[RyanC1]

Dana

Thanks very much for your answer I am of the same belief, I think Matt Cutts has just got me all concerned from reading to much about linking penalties and the ever confusing "Information of Mis-information"  as I affectionately call it in the office.

have a great day.

Ryan

[danatanseo]

I have seen the same scenario in many of the e-commerce sites I have managed too. I never saw any adverse effects as far as SEO went. I think it depends on what the perceived purpose of those links is. If you are really just helping your visitors find additional content or products that are relevant to what they are looking for, I think you should be okay.

In this particular case, I don't think it's a problem.

However, I am always willing to admit that I could be wrong and am very interested to hear what others might have to say. There might be some folks here who've had completely different experiences.