First BusinessWeek has no clue about anything related to
SEO.
Google does not downgrade paid blog posts unless the paid blog posts were done to manipulate organic search results.
For Businessweek to write something so irresponsible is why less than professional journalists are cutting the throats of traditonal media and forcing newspapers to close.
Inane articles without any basis for their claims and unproven statements such as the one in BusinessWeek would be a reason a newspaper editor would not publish such rubbish.
Seems BusinessWeek wants to join the fate of newspapers publishing fallacy without confirming their source....
Stupid is as stupid writes in its magazine.......