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I think most of all websites with content for webmasters link to this website because they pay $money for referrals and I saw a lot of high quality blogs on their “Link Market Place”. Maybe is the affiliation with TLA is the reason for lot of this PR drops. TLA has a PR zero since several weeks and was maybe one of the first sites getting a PR drop (edit: they got a penalty from Google, you can’t find them on their company name). I remember me that TLA has send us new affiliate links using a TinyURL; some action to safe what was left? I removed my website from the TLA market place because I never earned something and also the prices from my TLA competitors are so high that I can’t believe that there are a lot of people making the “big” money there. I know some webdev site with a PR6 (or 7) was selling links for several hundred $ a month, this website has a PR 4 now.

I think Google has indexed the whole TLA market place and will change the PageRank for the listed sites now or later. Maybe is the affiliation with TLA already enough to loose PageRank points (who knows).

Victim or offender?

For those who sold links in a large scale like some paid directories I understand that Google has give a penalty to those sites, but what about those site from blog owners never sold (active) a link? In the past a high PageRank was a kind of compliment from Google to the owner thats he has done a good job in SEO. Today I need to think about every link placement if it’s maybe bad for my website.
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