I don't think there is any proof to this theory. I am sure they can take into account how many backlinks you have or had when there is fraud issue.
This seems also another inaccurate perception in SEO industry I believe. When there is an issue of fraud, google can very well take into issue what keyword this domain had a history on, or when they started that campaign.
At least this is what common logic would tell me.
I still don't think there is any way for a legitimate person to be on a blog with 50K posts on it.
Moreover, I believe most of these blogs, forums, etc. are invented by people selling various products for this very same reason (xrumer, etc) ... Hence they are flagged in google's system long long ago.
I strongly believe all these automated methods are detrimental to a site's ranking.
I don't know anything about SEO, but common logic most of the time prevails.
I am sorry, I didn't mean to hijack your thread. I learnt siteexplorer from you, and thanked you for it already. Myspace method would have been a try at least, but it does not seem to work.
You say:
I don't know anything about SEO, but common logic most of the time prevails.
And then try to decipher Google's Algorithm?
Google doesn't use common logic.
They base everything on the following, so don't think it's just ONE factor because it's not:
-Domain Age from when it was first registered
-Domain Age from when it was first indexed
-Domain Life Expectancy before expiration (If you buy 2-5 years up front before your domain expires)
-Number of backlinks
-Number of Gov / Edu backlinks
-Number of backlinks linking to your backlinks
-Your h1 Title tag
-Your h2 tags
-Your density for the targeted keyword on your page
-Your Page Rank
-Your plugins / html
-The overall competitors' backlinks theme (If you are in the adult industry, then spam is expected, but if you are in the finance industry, then you need a lot of edu / gov links)
-Number of posts / content on your domain
-How often is your content updated
-The extension of your domain (.com .net . org etc)
etc
There's literally like 150+ factors, but the MOST important are the following 3:
1)Your Domain Age
2)The Number Of Backlinks
3)The Keyword Being In Your Domain