blaze - 1:18 am on Feb 16, 2005 (gmt 0)

Offpage links, that is other people linking TO YOU, have

ZERO DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS.

Repeat after me -- only on page factors have detrimental effects, that is stuff that is under your control.

I can not, for example, go buy a link on JUNKYARD LINKS R US and point to all the folks above me in a SERP and get them booted.

For pretty obvious reasons.

Not only have various Googlers confirmed this, it is also pasted all over their website.

What upsets me about this is that Macro is a very very smart guy. I can only wonder if he is willfully posting this as mis-direction.