@Jarez
Yes, money wins...also this time.
There are still 2 ways to rank good..
One....you need a huge website with at least 10.000 pages so you can create a lot internal links (like what this forum is doing for Alan with now 175.000 pages

) and a good portion of inbound links to complete the story.
Two.
You need a good site like 50 pages and a good budget to buy a lot quality links.
(to get an very healthy network of inbound links)
Using both is better but that is an easy guess.
That those bloggers did not get caught in the filter is also an easy guess...they blog till death to get content with links.
Also they use subs on the same main domain.
The links they have do the rest.
Some others on this board give answers but not solutions which will help the webmasters who are in this filter not further. If they really know it better then why they are not intending to share it ?
The problems who where there are clear....and compared to each other they are in big lines the same.
Not really big sites.....and the links they get are MAINLY from their own network
which will not help them further in this matter.
Regards,
Optimizer