Some of you may have noticed: we removed the TextLinkAds blocks from our site over a month ago. We did this after becoming aware of the adverse affect it could have on our site's performance in some search engines. The paid text link ads were clearly labeled as sponsored links, but we failed to mark them with rel="nofollow" because we were told that this would violate the Text Link Ads terms of service. Once we found out we couldn't add the rel="nofollow" marker, we decided to pull these ads.

We also removed the single ReviewMe.com paid review page (which had been clearly marked as a paid review) a month before. We will not run these ad programs in the future.