These are not "private" blog networks. I would classify them as "semi-private" if you can buy into them.
Any time you join a network you risk getting pounded in the a$$ by the big G.
Build your own network and you will be fine.
To be honest they are barely even semi-private. Most of them give out reports with the networks domain in them... HUGE FOOTPRINT.
Some of my private blog network websites just got deindexed. Unique, high quality content with external links, images, different hosts...
Well, im not gonna name people but some networks on this forum actually upload the reports onto Google Docs, not only that the heading in the document is "Thanks for buying high pr network links from XXX", you can say what you want but im pretty sure google keeps an eye on these documents.I never understood how giving out reports was a footprint. I mean, if google was manually infiltrating these networks, report or no, they can easily send the links to a new domain and then monitor which site links to it. Report just makes it a tiny bit faster for them. Or am I missing something really obvious here? :S
Well, im not gonna name people but some networks on this forum actually upload the reports onto Google Docs, not only that the heading in the document is "Thanks for buying high pr network links from XXX", you can say what you want but im pretty sure google keeps an eye on these documents.
How many sites?
Paranoid much? I'm confident Google don't track down networks like this ;-)
We can all be sure SAPE is safe though. Since its only like "smaller" networks targetted in this. There is a few more than thousands sites in SAPE.
Maybee i am slightly paranoid but what makes you think that sape is still safe after the major update soon?
I mean SAPE is safe from the targetted actions against networks like in original post. After the big update, sites who consist 100% of SAPE might not be safe.. And maybe they only choose to devalue links. Who knows.