egomaniac - 12:23 am on Aug 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

(those with quality outgoing links) are getting higher ratings in the SERPSs now...

For the keywords I compete in, noone links out to other sites. My site got hit by the June 27 "data refresh" (whatever that means). My home page and others within the site that got hit for the most part don't link out. I do have some other pages within the site that do link out though.

Some of my competitors got hit on June 27th. Many recovered on July 27th. Mine did not. None of those sites link out off of the pages that got hit and then recovered either (e.g. their home pages strictly link to pages within their sites).