Can you have a damaging back link?
I know links from traffic exchanges can be damaging to your Adsense account.
As for the others, it's always been a topic of discussion. There was a big company a year or two back whose SEO company did a lot of small keyword backlinks for every retail topic imaginable and they were ranking number one for the randomest things. Google gave them a manual slap and sent them to page 50.
Overall the argument I've seen is that if backlinks could hurt someone, then competitors would simply send 'bad backlinks' to get rid of everyone they were competing with.Thanks WryLilt
This .xxx site has linked to my hub, so I suppose there is nothing much I can do about, apart from deleting the hub. Google know that there is nothing much you can do about it, but I wonder if they will still dislike it?The 'G' team is on 'G'+ and they share a lot of information
there is an article that they are paying attention to links. Even penalized themselves 
just not sure if, when penalizing anybody, it's the same length of time 
Thanks Dame Scribe
- trouble is that short of emailing this .xxx site and asking them to unlink my hub there is really not a lot I can do. I think that you need a PhD to be able to traverse the big G rules these days, and as you say they even mess themselves up!
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