JoeSinkwitz - 4:54 pm on Apr 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

errorsamac,

I almost find it ironic that the recovery method is to get high quality links, most of which would probably have to be purchased, given Google's recent stance on the matter. I'm not entirely certain this is the only recovery method, but it does look like the most obvious.

If the quality fallout on the bombing fix is high enough, then they'll devote more resources to cleaning it up. Unfortunately, if quality difference isn't perceived to be too high, then we're in for a very long road.

Forecast: at some point, Google webmaster's console may offer the ability to ignore some incoming links, in effect making it possible to dodge or otherwise exist this phenomenon. Of course, that's a terrible solution given that it would require everyone penalized to have to sign up for an account.

Cygnus