I had been writing for a couple of months about how the Digital Point Link coop turned my travel blog into my best performing site in terms of income by pushing me to #1 ranks in Yahoo for some important keywords.
The recent Yahoo update has left many webmasters scratching their heads since numerous sites with coop weight pointing at them no longer apper in results at all. Naturally this is seens as potentially catastrophic for Yahoo since anyone can point their coop weight at a competitor to see them removed entirely from Yahoo results.
There are several experiemnts going on right now. So far one established charity site is gone from Yahoo! after Shawn at DP chose to help it as an experiment. My travel blog had no DP ads on it. Only incoming coop links. Clearly yahoo will need to change something since they have no way of determining who is pointing coop weight at a site. That has always been why search engines don't penalize webmasters for inciming links. They don't want site's competitors manipulating their results. It seems that Yahoo has left themselves vulnerable to just that...
Posted by James Trotta at July 3, 2005 11:11 AMAny proof that yahoo really hate sites using the coop?
I am using coop to all my site and willing to remove them all if I see a proof of this.
Posted by: ed at July 4, 2005 9:22 AMIt's very difficult if not impossible to prove without doubt the problem was caused by the coop. I have one site that has about 10K coop weight pointed at it and it's position in the big three hasn't changed in months whilst I have found another site that also has coop weight pointed at it drop in the Yahoo SERPS recently. I'll stick with the Coop for now but wull continue building links the old fashioned way alongside.
Posted by: Al at July 4, 2005 10:02 AMI think a lot of people are leaving coop for AdCaliber and LV.
Posted by: Ben at July 4, 2005 12:02 PMI think the problem is not so much the coop hurting in any other way than putting many webmasters at ease not to do anything else to help them achieve rankings.
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