A new technique that I've seen is they do not link directly to their "money" site, they link to a page, that link to another page, that link to their money site.
So if they manage to put a link on your blog, the next step is to make spam links to Your site.
Google needs to scrap the pagerank and come up with another metric. Lately I've seen a drastic decrease in quality where 9 out of 10 pages in the top-10 is just garbage.
Even if I copy a whole sentence from a site with low pagerank, it will be hidden deep in like page 4 o 5 in the google search result.
We don't know: 1) how much of a factor pagerank still is and 2) how pagerank is calculated. Google may very well be beating down pagerank as a factor, while simultaneously adjusting how pagerank gets calculated so these spam links matter much less.
My bigger gripe is how awful it is to get rid of bad links, either as a result of your own past discretions (or past discretions you've inherited) or from negative SEO.
So if they manage to put a link on your blog, the next step is to make spam links to Your site.
Google needs to scrap the pagerank and come up with another metric. Lately I've seen a drastic decrease in quality where 9 out of 10 pages in the top-10 is just garbage.
Even if I copy a whole sentence from a site with low pagerank, it will be hidden deep in like page 4 o 5 in the google search result.