dburdon,
I think it is one the best options for culling link spam of all denominations, including the more difficult such as CSS and those that are non-relevant high
PR purchased.
If you think about it, it makes perfect sense to reward relevance coming and going. Simply catch the problem at the source (OBL).
We continue to make the mistake in Forums everywhere, and need to better define "Links" as IBLs or OBLs in our discussions. I don't believe a link is just a link anymore.
That particular client I mentioned above fell in his GOOGLE SERPs in the Jagger Mêlée:
#1 to #101
#1 & #2 to #160
#3 to #248
This Site still ranks highly, in MSN and YAHOO, holding top SERPs there. GOOGLE weighted something extra heavy this time and at this point no one seems to have a handle on it yet. Maybe it is “hosting issues”, several do play in!
These drops are significant for a Site that is:
Relevant
Validates
No Spam – Completely White Hat
Etc..
The only differences between this client and all the others that did not experience the Jagger crash are:
1) It has fewer OBLs than any other.
2) They continue paid YAHOO listings
3) They changed Hosting Companies
I don’t know at this point which, or if all 3 are playing in. I doubt that it is #2, because they may be setting themselves up for legal ramifications there.
Ken