When Matt Cutts compliments on your plugin the day after you publish it. Joke aside…. Another great plugin as usual Dax. I added it immediately.

Andy Beard and Courtney Tuttle are two people that I hold very dear to my heart (even though I never met them) for their willingness to share their knowledge. They both got penalized for “selling links” manually by Google.. By not finding an algorithmic answer to the question, Google is using more fear tactics to frighten great blog writers from making money from their blogs (including stay at home moms) (and forcing them to choose Google adsense), while allowing the big websites with humongous PPC budgets to get away with a lot worse.

P.S. Google, this blog does not sell links but we live in a country of free market and I am a big libertarian. If you will apply rules, apply it to everyone not just the small people in this world. Then I will call you fair. If not, you as a website are no more trustable than the sites you are penalizing. To protest this injustice, I have reedited an older wordpress wikipedia nofollow plugin to make it a Google nofollow plugin (where all the blog links to Google will have a nofollow tag). As symbolic and ridiculous as it sounds, it should send a message to Google about how people feel about it. Please use and share this if you feel the same way about Google. Here is the Google nofollow plugin download page