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[PhoneMistress]

I have not submitted in quite some time. I think Google is about to do something drastic. Matt Cutts said that they were going after "porn" next particularly affiliate links and yesterday's video about his regret in not targeting content farms and paid links. I don't know it seems like a potential clusterfuck.

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Originally Posted by PhoneMistress

Matt Cutts said that they were going after "porn" next particularly affiliate links and yesterday's video about his regret in not targeting content farms and paid links. I don't know it seems like a potential clusterfuck.

I think you're reading far too much into what he said in that video. A lot of people seem to think that Matt speaks in code, as if he is hinting towards something he's not allowed to say. He doesn't. Google could have de-indexed link lists and TGPs a decade ago when they were warning about the number of links-out per page, yet they didn't. Such sites might not rank very well compared to the new competition, but they still get indexed and still gain PR. I also don't believe that paid links are the same thing as affiliate links. If that was so, Google would have to devalue pages with their own advertising on them.