soccer_star - 1:44 pm on Aug 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

same anchor text for all IBL's, many links at once, all links pointing to the homepage and no links to internal pages....those solutions should be avoided IMO or, at least, managed carefully.

I second that. I did what I thought was an index page to index page link exchange with a site some time ago. Little did I realise they put my link on all 2,000 of their pages pointing to my home page. I was 950'd a few days later and didn't know why. When I noticed all these extra links (a few months later) I removed their link and got them to remove all my links and my site came out of 950 a few days later. Could've been coincedence, but gaining an immediate rush of identical links all pointing to the home page trips a Google filter IMHO.