Does Google punish sites for Backlinks?

[SEODinosaur]

Here is Matt Cutts video, for those of you who have not seen it already.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4dAWb5jUws   (Very Short)

In this Video Matt explains that Google does not look at backlinks.

Many link spamming sites have detected, there have been many website receiving warning messages in their Google web tools to deindex these links, etc..

My theory is that Google will not punish sites for backlinks. However, they manually check for "link farming sites" and warn anyone affiliated with them, just in case these links were built from a competitor. This way they can eliminate all the "Bad Link Farm" sites and not hurt anyone who does not deserve to be hurt. Google is not going to give us all their information to rank, they dont want us to rank. They want us to PPC. However, they do want to have the best SERPs available. I call it Google juggling!

Thoughts?

[Carson-Ward]

Hi Donnie,

Not exactly sure what the question is, but you have an interesting theory. I think it would make a great blog post to present your theory and support it with data and evidence.