Another patent covering link/resource scoring

Again, if you are in SEO you should be making yourself aware of these things, and the best source by far and away is Bill Slawski 

Reshared post from Bill Slawski

A Google patent discusses how a site might be labeled a low quality site by Google based upon the links from other pages pointed to the site, and how this can potentially reduce rankings for a page.

How Google May Classify Sites as Low Quality Sites
A Google patent describes how it may assign a site a low quality score based upon the links pointed to the site; such as links from boilerplate or multiple redundant resources on a site.