I am just trying to be honest here. I found interesting fact recently. Google has filtered/banned some websites which earlier ranked really well. One of my sites was also filtered. Earlier it was ranked on the 2nd position in one competitive keyword and now it's totally gone. (well still ranked around 80th but that's totally absurd). My friends said it's because Google detected my paid links, bla bla bla, but I found this is just illogical. Look at this spammy site: Consumer Price Watch <- yeah you're right, I want to give this site a back link so when he checks it, he'll know I give him from here. Now go to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com and then check his backlinks (or you can use other tools). What do you see? Almost all of his backlinks are paid blog posts a.k.a paid links. What really surprised me was, they are all not relevant. All those trash blogs gave backlinks to this site yet he's ranked first in "diet pills" keyword. This trash also ranked really well in similar keywords like "best diet pills", etc. And no, if you think he'll be there temporary, you are wrong. He already conquered the keyword since Q1 2008. Yeah, i was one of his competitors before my site in this keyword gone totally. He applied the same technique to his other site which now ranked 2nd in other competitive keyword. For this keyword, I'm still on the first position until today and he's second. This is just totally nuts. People keep saying Google algorithm gets better and lately Google dance killed many SEO-ed sites but his sites are only getting better day by day. There are also lots of other trash sites in these diet keywords which only depend on paid links but still ranked pretty well. Another example is if you go to "work at home" keywords like "work at home jobs" or "work at home opportunities", you can see the top 5 positions there are always using paid links as their core SEO technique. And it's even worse. Most of the paid links are blogrolls/sitewide which is not in-content and totally look not natural. So now my question is, where's Google algorithm heading? What the hell are they doing? I can show you more examples like in adult related keywords where there are so many sites which only depend on paid links (and those paid links look so unreal). Any opinion?