Newbie SE Question, about google

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Originally posted by GunnCat
I don't advise building and hosting free sites you submit to other TGPs or LLs on your main domian. We had a very high PR about 6 months ago, about 6 that dropped to 0 since I began hosting and posting galleries on the same domain (a few thousand).

Do you use auto-submitters (which submit to thousands of TGPs, regardless of their quality)?
I´ve seen many TGPs banned by Google; if you link to many of them, your site may have been classified as part of the "bad neighbourhood", and hence banned.