Moving up by cleaning up

I have moved back up to the #4 spot for SEO book. How did I do that? Did I get more links? No I removed links! Last year and before Google liked some link networks that I found and I over used them for links but now google is smarter and better at find link relationships early this year google has tightend up the link network filters (links to bad neighborhoods) and you may have suffered If you have clean out the link network links can move your site back up.
To get out of this pentily box remove link networks from your sites and from sites that link to you if you can if you can't have that site remove your link. Don't get any more links from sites that use link networks. You may get away with a few liks form link networked sites but after you get to many your site will get put in to the penilty box and will not get listed I seen one of my sites drop over 700 spots when put in the penitly box clean up restores the site in about a week Yahoo is even more strict about link networks
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SEObook.com vs seobook.org.uk IF you check the backlinks of both sites you will see that .com has more then 300 times the links I have but I have the #4 spot no one between me and seobook.com can I take the #1 spot?