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A webmasterworld.com guy reports that his site got banned for using link spam tactics,

he says

"My website got penalized by google. (COngratulations to me :-) )Things started
from this JAN (wen Google scheduled to upgrade its PR algo? I am not sure if its
true.) Traffic dropped. So did the earnings. Many people felt changes in their
rankings as well as earnings in this particular month. On te other hand, others
felt more income and traffic (obviously)
Reason of Penalty: I was using my
own automatic Link partnering tool and in few instances posted the link
partnering email on Forums and Blogs too. (accidently)
Google detected this
as "SPAMMING" and the traffic that I am getting on this very website (from
Google only) has decreased drastically.
However, other Search Engines seem
to be BLIND to this "SPAMMING" (Yes! I agree that in some sense this is spamming
what I did). Rather MSN and Yahoo have started sending more traffic.
Though,
the website is a quality website (quality content and all). But my greed to get
more links has put this website down. I will have to relaunch it now.
Furthermore, I will start experimenting and will be enhancing my Link
Partnering tool algorithms to detect these irrelevant websites and filtering out
Blogs and Forums.
Moral of the story: 1 - Google has applied some SERIOUS
SPAM combacting algorithms. Its growing more and more concious about SPAM. So be
careful. 2 - Other Search Engines are still alot away from what Google is doing.
I salute Google for their dedication and taking SPAM websites seriously. 3 -
Dont post your Website links on Comments ssection of Blogs or forums. (which I
did accidently) 4 - Look out for other ways of SPAMMING that Google has become
resistant to. Kindly post them here for further evaluation by WebmasterWorld
community. "

Please be careful with google they are pretty strong in detecting link spam,

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