Ah - I see.
Yes - when I was travelling through Dubai to the last world cup I saw that they'd banned a lot of "undesirable gambling sites" including my
GoonersGuide.com site.
If you're living in a country that does ban sites on the net (China, Turkey, Greece, parts of asia and middle east) - and targeting those countries - then you need to avoid being included in that censorship.
However, by buying links and getting SERPS and traffic, you are going against that idea. It seems to me that these links are a total waste or spend, if you're planning to operate in secret and a "word-of-mouth" basis.
That also counts against long term business though as it could be zapped overnight - unless you've built a whole lot of duplicate sites ready to simply email your members and give them the new location ... but even then links are a poor spend - as the SERPs is valuless if you relocate.
So I think it's a good idea to end those links.
