Let me rephrase.
I am not saying that links are bad. I am saying they may have an effect. In your case Janeth it dropped you just ten places on a 3-word term. That effect is more pronounced on 2-word terms, so much more so that it has the effect of taking you right out of the picture like those "gift basket" people.
I did not mention anything about it affecting
PR. I do not know if it does or not. It has not affected the "fish oil" guy or, as far as I know, the "gift basket" people.
Magnum is the one stating that it did. He made the reference to that it was due to spammy pages. But he refuses to divulge where those pages are or who they belong to.
My email correspondance is dealing with this issue and if it exists, in addition to the 300+ links...in some cases they overlap. So Magnum is not the first person that I have actually heard about the spammy pages from.
I am just exploring the possibility that it might exist, and trying to prove or disprove the notion. It would be nice if this guy would give us more particulars on it.
There are some statements he made that sound a little far fetched...such as the $400,000 a year and how Google in one fell swoop put him out of business. I do not swallow that part of it.
If I had that happen to me and I came into this Forum to vent some hostility...I will tell you right now that I would not be holding back about who these scum sucking spammers were. To come in and just make a bunch of accusations against Google and in the same breath hold back the perinent information is ludicrous. It sounds all too fishy.
But even so...there is the fact that this type of thing is being talked about outside of this Forum. That is what piqued my curiosity about this whole thing.
So I invite Magnum to elaborate a little more on the subject and enlighten us further.