Again. Poor backlinks can't hurt your rankings. It can only make you waste your precious time that you can use on improving the surfing experience of your visitors.

Make a tomato soup :) oh yes and those quality backlinks that are so hard to get. I suggest Google Webmaster Tools.

Take a look at your server log files. Find a way to differentiate your visitors from other automated mambo jumbo.

Google does not penalize if you submit your web site to various shady directories. If that was a case then your competitor would do this instead for you. What you need is good quality links and...

I do not believe that one website should control the information plus Wiki is not reliable source. I can't be sure if what I am reading is truth. Lots of details are misleading. For example when I...

God bless them and now if they take about.com and wikipedia from all the first results that would be blessing from the sky.

I think buying links change happened almost 2 years ago. It is nothing to be worried if you have quality site or forum all previous results will come back to its original spots.

I hope you were reading previous posts. I explained above.

That is true when you build large forum, blog or site dedicated to range of different keywords. However, few years ago I was obsessed with sites that target only one or two specific keywords. I...

Google is always testing everything. In last two years they had hard time producing quality results. There are still trying to correct the mistakes. But how not to make mistakes when everything is...

The easiest thing as always is to research top five competitors and see what they have that you don't. Usually a lot more :)

Yes it usually happens with forums and blogs.