I'm sure those ranking changes you're referring to are down to Penguin 4. Noticed that many of my competitors suddenly had 1000's of new links in Majestic - one, yes, two maybe but tens of competitors. I put it down to Google releasing penalties and the shit floating back to the top.
My niche is rife with PBN's - we have a round 30-40 of our own to supplement other activity. I noticed a distinct drop back in September - we dropped about 20% traffic but so did many of my competitors who I knew only used PBN's - they had no new content for over 12 months/no social...
I'm not going to lie, I'm in payday loans and I have to say black hat has never been so prevalent. It's not just the little guys, the big guys are at it big style too. I'm not really an advocat of black hat - I'd much rather we all did white hat stuff - but that's not the real world that we have...
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