smithaa02 - 2:27 pm on Oct 8, 2012 (gmt 0)

Aristotle...the issue with that is that many of us knew what our rank was before we built links. We specifically were a strong #2 in with a very competitive key phrase before we built links...so our organic links were/are that strong that we shouldn't be dependent on the the fake links to get us back to page #1. So logically, if we didn't need the fake links to get us to page 1 (albeit not #1 overall), then removing the fake links should restore us to our old position (in theory).