Adding for Dumb SEO Questions 48.
via +Jason Mun & +Rob Wagner who said:
"this does not surprise me. The war on links has become more of an obsession for the webspam team. This is a good example.
For a small business this is above the learning curve. This falls into the category of doing real company shit and should not be punished. Of course this is not good news for Yellowpages. What is next? Will small businesses start cancelling YP listings? Will YP give refunds? Does YP have a grounds for legal action?
Even if this is a mistake, and it could very well be, it shows just how far Google is prepared to go with punishing websites. Of course links using authorship markup are encouraged.
What I find crazy is all the time that is being devoted to link removal. It does absolutely nothing to improve a website. "
