decaff - 8:39 pm on May 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

I wouldn't think it would matter one way or the other if they are banned from Google...

Their business model is extremely well developed and they have very aggressive sales people and many business building channels active or in the works...

They have built out an excellent internal system for doing all the SEO stuff...

They simply violated Google's terms and Google finally caught up with them...possibly devalued their link structure...
Google shows 33,000 inbounds
Yahoo shows 12,000,000 inbounds...this means that the links themselves will drive huge volumes of leads their way....

I don't think it will affect their ability to generate business...they just won't be able to show their own sites listings in Google any more...they can simply show the "excellent" listings of one or more of their clients sites...