Should I Be Concerned about Too Many Links in Interview?
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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/
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Thanks guys. Great answers!
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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!
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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
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