of course it is if youre caught participating in it you would be banned. If they dont catch you, the artifical nature of link building is seen and no score given. (Keyword term for you to research "filter" ) If your idea was correct you would be ranking at the top for a very competitive keyword term using your methods.... but youre not now are you?? No need to answer as I already know.
You like circles? Because you are drawing some nice one. I know its spam but is it fair ti punnish a site because someone else is pointing a link to them? They don't control that site and if this were true I could easily just kill all my competitors - believe me I am aware of many BH sites that could do it if this were true. Google doesn't allow it though. You have to link to them before google will penalize you. And if somebody wants to get me a top ten ranking for 'internet scams' I will take it.
I have had it done before and it never hurt me. But I still don't understand how you think something like this could hurt you when if it did you'd be in big trouble.
It doesn't seem like you feel very comfortable otherwise you would have answered sure go ahead and try it on my site. Also, to be honest, I'm not even sure if I would have success with your site because it is not brand new. Again I never said it could be done to anyone and specifically said larger/established sites would probably not be affected. How do I think something like this could hurt you? When I didn't know any better a year ago, I submitted a new site to millions of FFA directories. Guess what happened shortly after?
You also linked to one of those sites or the site offering the service. Please admit that. I have talked with tons of webmasters who did the same and they never remember that mintue detail where they did link to that site but that site had a PR5 and was indexed by google. What they didn't realize is Google doesn't ban every site that is being heavily penalized and uses them for testing. If you want to feel free - I am not afraid of any google effects however it does also bring alot of spam comments and spam emails and automated forms being used.
I won't admit anything like that because it's not true. Why in the world would I link to a place like that, most of them don't require any sort of backlinks? It was an FFA blaster, like to 12 millions FFA sites as far as I remember.. I could even show you the site that got banned if you wanted, all it was was an affiliate review site with no outgoing links other then to the clickbank vendor. If you are right then I have no other explanation other than Google did not want to put it in the index for over 6 months. However, it was initially in the index until I "blasted" it.
Yeah, same here. My site get a lower position for some of my keywords. And it happened on my ranking on google and yahoo. Is this normal?