[Ryan_Jones]

The solution isn't to make linking illegal - it's for Google to stop the penalizing and just simply not count the links they don't like. Penalize for on-site stuff, just ignore the off site stuff.

I realize they want to take away the incentive for spammers, but let's shift the burden of finding a better way to do that onto them instead of changing the laws about how the web works.

[xxs]

They will just =not count= more stuff - same as negative counting. Overall the entire ranking business depending on external links instead of the actual content will always be exploitable to some degree.