3.5 doesn't even make sense. Why would google penalise a site for being linked from one that ranks for a particular term? If google thought the page was spam th

3.5 doesn't even make sense. Why would google penalise a site for being linked from one that ranks for a particular term? If google thought the page was spam then they wouldn't rank it in the first place. The mostly likely result of linking competitors would be to increase their rankings.