[mcaronan]

I found this article at Seobook.com and it was kinda unfair with ordinary webmasters like us.

Business.com...

• sells links (yes they have editors, but when they were interviewed about a year and a half ago by Aviva Directory they only had 6 editors managing 65,000+ categories...many of the listings not only included aggressive anchor text, but also allowed the use of up to 5 spammy sub-links with each listing)
• used nofollow on many of the free editorial links (while passing link juice out on the paid links)...this was corrected after we gave them a proper roasting on Threadwatch
• uses a funky ajax set up to hide work.com content in a pop up (but makes it accessible to the Google crawler)
• scrapes Google search results as "web listings" and in some cases Google ranks these pages! (Google is ranking a Google search result surrounded with Google AdSense ads, branded as Business.com)

you can view it all here..

http://www.seobook.com/how-does-algorithm-view-your-website

[Will]

Thanks for the informative post, seems like the algorithm is unique for every site..

Also seems that it's quite unfair in certain circumstances.

[mcaronan]

It really seems unfair.. Favoritism from the big G is so depressing because when an ordinary website has been discovered by the big G using one of those things I've mentioned above, most probably your website will be banned...

[silent_thunder]

wow!! this is totally not right and not ethical..every one deserves their right earn