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aside from being completely off-topic, thefoodsite.com is actually of reasonable quality, not plastered with ads, etc.
i've never bought links for the site and wouldn't do something so blindingly obvious. any idea what happened? could a competitor be trying to buy me some very low quality links or is that paranoid?
This happens once in a while. It's almost certain that it's a dynamic list and your site was triggered accidentally depending on the filters for the list. You might want to check and see if it's even do-follow.
Buying links being a huge no-no is an overstated myth. How would anyone know if done right? Google catches people who have links from shady sites under a SPONSORS or COOL LINKS bar, next to 50 other sites on a bare PR page. Something like this wouldn't have ANY negative effects link exchange wise. If so, everyone's SEO budget would be to buy as many links to their competitors sites as possible. If your site pops up on a few crappy sites that link to you, the algorithm might ignore it and let it pass 0 juice. It's not going to get your site deindexed unless you're some ridiculous ****.
Feel free to PM me the link and I'll take a look.
Last edited by Phresh; 11-29-2011 at 10:56 AM.