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Originally Posted by jawn_tech
Just throwing in a question here so I can better understand...
For those of you on the "yes it can" side... Are you talking about an anomaly, where conditions have to be just right, or there's a sure-fire way to knock a site down every time. For instance, (purely hypothetical!) could John Doe bring down giants like Adobe, Amazon, or even MSN? (Hacking doesn't count, IBL's only)
To use a metaphor, what I think I'm seeing is you're saying, yes it's possible to hit a baseball out of the park. But whether or not such a hit would beat the other team depends on what inning it is and how many points they have already. Whereas, this would be the equivalent of pattern... So if a pattern were favorable, it would work. No?
Just trying to put my finger on it, and not discrediting what you're saying.
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jawn...
When a "linking pattern" that Google doesn't like, doesn't approve of, "egregious", however you'd like to word it, is detected and meets whatever threshold they have established, the target site can/will suffer in the rankings either automatically by the algo or by a "hand job".
For anyone to think, that they can engage in any kind of external link building they wish and the worse thing that can happen is nothing, is being naive.
Dave