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Originally Posted by AVC
Can you please highlight the statements and words that were not proved in your mind kgun ??
In addition please tell us what Google employees have said about this.
Deepsand, have you heard of "the great directory de-indexing" crisis that has gone on?
What do you think caused this to happen in your opinion?
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It is not me that has said that. If you reread the thread, you will note that there are cites (to cites) of Matt Cutts by other members. My personal view (reread my posts above), to the oppisite is proved, is that bought, irrelevant or "suspect" links can only carry zero or positive weight a priori. A posteriori, the positive weight of such a link can only be zeroed out. That implies that pagerank can drop from n to k where k < n. But I will not say that your site is hurt by downgrading such links. The positive effect was undeserved since the link was bought, irrelevant or suspect from the beginning.
Some links that I call "suspect", may be relevant when studied in more detail. I think it is those links that may be categorized as suspect (or whatever you or Google prefer to call them) that can carry
zero weight and as such hurt your pagerank (internal or external) since it should be higher. The link was categorized by Google as "suspect", but is relevant when they study the link in more detail or get an explanantion from a web master.
That was my sepculation initiated because of what has been said above, referring to statments made by Google directly or indirectly.