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Have lots of original quality content and a share of high quality links and you shall prosper. remember that content is king and links are queen. My blogs took a hit recently, but they ranked well for a long time so we will see where this goes.

Blogrolls are part of the blog template, so they are seen by some link builders as a quick way to have links appear over and over with every new blog post, which speeds link building. And, get a blog with hundreds of posts over many years to add you to their blogroll, and bingo, the moment the blog is republished the link is in the blogroll section of every single post, instantly. This has sadly encouraged link spam techniques including bounty based blogroll deals. In other words, blogrolls have become fair game for link sellers and buyers. I've been offered money several times for link placement within my blogroll, and I laugh because I purposely don't even have a blogroll. Then I give them my Gomer Pyle "shame shame shame" speach. Hopefully, Google's tweak will recognize legit blogroll links earned by merit, and blogroll links that are purely chasing pagerank. They aren't hard to spot.

-ew

I hope that such update will solve the problems with this tool. The link issue still needs a lot of work.

Good info. There's pro's and con's to this update...we'll have to see how it effects blog rankings.