With Google stepping up its efforts to penalize link networks and those who buy and sell links, and algorithms like Panda meant to reward sites with high-quality content, how important will backlinks be to Google's search algorithm in the future?
Some of the top ranking paid directories to fall victim to Google’s campaign to stump out paid links that pass pagerank (PPP) are Aviva, Alive, Big Web Links, ewebpages, Directory Dump, Elegant Directory, and text-links-ads.