menial - 5:08 am on Sep 5, 2007 (gmt 0)

Being a webmaster, do you freely, without a second thought, link to a website with Adsense or similar contextual ads on them? Now I realize I would do it only if the website has extremely good content (10 out of 10) for my visitors. But that hardly ever happens. On the other hand, I would link to a website that only has good content (5-9) -- but does not include any ads.

I feel I'm not alone in this approach.

It seems Adsense or YPN degrade the true value and potential of the website in the long term. That's why, it's harder for Adsense publishers to get good rankings in organic search results because the "natural votes" are missing.