Originally Posted by Why

funny how its always the people trying to black hat and backdoor their way into SEO that believe in all these magic sauces. Buy lots of links, pay ESL's to write lots of text, Buy more domains, buy more IPs, get in more data centers.... BLAH! Then when they get blacklisted, they always want to point to one step they forgot, rather then accepting it was probably one of the other "shortcuts" they took that got them cut. these kinds of projects are destined to fail from minute one, as all blackhat things are, slash->burn->repeat.

the only secret sauce is: make high quality sites.

you get out what you put in.