hbirnbaum - 2:00 am on May 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

hutcheson,

I wish it was a myth. Unfortunetely it's real, and has affected my site big time.

I totally agree that affiliate links should not be a problem. However, I can tell you my site was PR0'd because of it. The site was PR 6-7 for 2 years before I added the affiliate links. Then went to 0 in one update.

I don't know what else it could be, but it's definetely some kind of penalty. The site is and was clean of any spam at the time of the penalty.

If the site went down to PR 4, fine I lost some backlinks. But PR0 is definetely a penalty, and I really don't think I did anything wrong. HUGE sites like Forbes, etc all have affiliate links, and they are not penalised. I don't get it...