> Thanks for your post.  I'm glad you're posting here in the Webmaster
> Help Group, because the discussions here help educate webmasters
> around the globe.  I just checked over newsday.com and compared it to
> the most recent version of newsday.com that was indexed by
> Archive.org:http://web.archive.org/web/20070829225145/http://www.newsday.com/

> Scrolling near the bottom of what your site used to look like, I see
> the following "Featured Links":
> Mesothelioma Lawyer Lung Cancer Personal Injury Law Firm
> Buy Mets Tickets Buy Yankees Tickets Wicked Tickets
> Hamptons Travel

> Please remember that participating in link schemes intended to
> manipulate search engine rankings, including buying or selling links
> that pass PageRank, is a violation of our Webmaster Guidelines, and
> may impact your site's standing in Google:http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66356

> If you believe your site was at one point in violation of the
> Webmaster Guidelines, and you have since made changes to your site so
> that it fits within the guidelines, you can request reconsideration of
> your site by following the steps here:http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35843

> Best,
> Reid

> On Jul 8, 12:44 pm, Autocrat wrote:

> > Is that a real email address?
> > :D

> > .

> > Seriously, I'd start ignoring them then.

> > Either that, or call a meeting and state thet you may have a solution,
> > but it's going to cost around the region of 14,000.
> > Thats to cover the expenses, time and resources required to pull apart
> > the external link infrastructure of the other sites, then contact all
> > those sites/companies/people that link to the other site, and then
> > bribe them to ensure they are linking to this site (thats not buying a
> > link... bribing is competely different ;)), and using good link text,
> > and possibly locate (after spending days scouring the net) high
> > quality, good PR sites for new links.