tigger - 11:24 am on Oct 19, 2011 (gmt 0)

I'm starting to think that de-rankings of quality sites and pages is mostly because of use of affiliate links.

sorry your wrong - all my sites are affiliate based, some have gone through panda with no problems and no loss of rankings, other have slipped. The ones that have slipped is probably down to neglect where I've been concentrating efforts onto larger sites that are ranking well & affiliate sites, in fact a couple of them rank higher than the main sponsor site