[Bill]

Google rot is affecting the whole adult arena, including some of the biggest people, and has been hitting the midsize and small linlists particularly hard.

We were discussing this in another thread.

There's not a lot of evidence that google rot is caused by "linking to bad neighborhoods", and a lot of evidence that it is caused by:

1. Heavy reciprocal linking.
2. Heavily duplicated anchor text.
3. Lack of one-way incoming links.
4. Heavy phrasing - too many related keywords on pages.
5. As well as the clear fact that by google's standards 99% of all adult sites are spam, because they are affiliate sites whose primary purpose is to drive traffic to sponsors.

The whole form and structure of the midsized or small linklist is just begging to be google-rotted.

But betraying each other because we want to preserve our income is going to fuck us all in the end, because it's not like we don't all want to preserve our income. We're all here to make a profit. If one starts because google is shitting on everybody these days, why should anybody honor their trades?

There has to be a more effective solution, or at least a compromise.