Whitey - 10:25 am on Oct 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

I have previously reported that we carried out an experiment on a link network which made the error of publishing "non-themed" links onto the test site. [ We intended to make sure that all links were theme related ].

e.g. the site was about Boats and lingerie links were mistakedly published on it.

All pages with these links on them were stripped of their page rank. The pages they pointed to were unaffected.

All pages without these links on them retained their page rank.

I guess the only way to restore a site or pages that did this, is to submit a reinclusion request and ask for forgiveness.

This may provide a practical testimony to Adam's statement above which suggests/says that Google can detect link networks, patterns and "strange" unrelated links on sites in conflict with their themes.

[edited by: Whitey at 10:40 am (utc) on Oct. 10, 2006]