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Re:It's Time For Google To Take A Stand On Paid Links by joeyo on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @10:11PM (#814453)
If it is authoritative, then you would expect it would (eventually) get linked to, no?
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Re:It's Time For Google To Take A Stand On Paid Links by dhimes on Thursday September 10, 2009 @09:07AM (#815154)
Perhaps, but not necessarily that much. How many people would put a link to how to build a dog house on their web page? Anybody who would probably has links to other dog house things (buy a book on Amazon, keep it smelling fresh with this goo from WalMart) etc., diminishing your algorithmically determined authority.

Not everybody blogs about everything going on in his/her life.

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