internetheaven - 8:19 pm on Apr 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

It is a proven fact, that Google now prefers sites with "Hundreds of links from one IP address" and that authority sites get pushed down like never before.

Probably better to phrase that as "Google's algorithm now seems to be set up so that ...", no-one company would actually prefer these lousy results, they just make Goog more money. Many of you seem to be under the impression that Google are evil. I believe Google are idiots, not evil. (yes, I'm calling the billion-dollar-phd-crammed-company idiots and I'm fine with that.) The point is not that these SEOs CAN exploit Google, but that Google is making themselves exploitable.

They just have to ignore stuff, I don't see how penalising equates to better spam control? If they ignore all the practices black-hats get involved in then those sites won't rank. Why have penalties?