Whitey - 9:15 pm on Feb 21, 2010 (gmt 0)

Link sellers certainly run a risk , yet i've see nsites that have been around for years with no problems.

Link buyers - raising your TBPR to silly heights from unrelated sites , over buying or creating a noticeable pattern with paid inbound links etc etc ....

.... it's all running a risk of editorial review , competitor scrutiny , algorthimn changes [ future or current ].

So the moral of the story is , the more you test that threshold , the higher the risk of a problem.