martinibuster - 9:13 pm on Jul 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

I have sitewide links into several websites (not purchased), and have had no problems.

For the cases where sitewide links caused a penalty, I can see how several thousand sudden inbounds might raise eyebrows, but there can be other factors in play- having to do with things done months before.

For the above cases to be conclusive, the purchase of ROS would have to be the only iffy things done with the websites. Now, I'm not pointing fingers, honest, but where there's smoke there's ususally fire.

Certainly it's conceivable that a ROS could cause a penalty (and so are many other theories), but in my experience I haven't seen it happen.