Is Google killing off link networks to cause page drops?

De indexed pages with unrelated links removed on Google

[Whitey]

A recent post on a forum group about a certain automated *linking network* may reveal some practices that could be related to your page drops.

btw - there are some big name quality sites and SEO's in the network - ouch! [ also some poor quality ones ].

This is the observation [ reworded ]:

I look after lots of websites and in the previous week I have had 2 sites removed from Google's cache - they are the only 2 sites I have with *the network* links on them - coincidence or not?

then

I did a site: search on the domain with *network* links. All pages which have gone supplemental have *network* links on them, whilst pages which are still cached by Google have not had links placed on them yet.

Conclusion - unless you do something to prevent spam links from appearing on sites then sites in the network will could come to a grinding halt very soon.

How many of you have questionable links on your pages , contributing to a network , that are experiencing page drops?

Presumably, this *network* intended to match relevant quality links, but it has a flaw insofar as it has let some none related links slip through. This may be causing damage and a signal to webmasters to watch their "neighbourhoods" far more vigilantly than before.

At least some I expect? Worth a discussion? :)