Is the Coop effecting Google indexing?

For a site I removed the coop from recently, I am slowly seeing Google index the forum deeper. Not huge gains but enough to be encouraging. Whether or not this is a coincidence or not, who knows.

Out or curiousity, I checkout the indexed pages of the Digitpoint Forum Archive as this is the only section from my understanding on DP which is serving ads. As big as the DP archive is, Google has only indexed about 700 pages.

Has anyone else experienced climbs in indexed pages after removing coop on their sites?

 

How long did it take to you to see improvements after removing the co-op links?

 

Google shows 15,300 DP pages for me.

 

3 weeks or so.

 

The archive or main part of the forums?

 

The archive from the link in your post.

 

I was also seeing 15,300 pages a few minutes ago, but right now I am seeing 739. Additionally, http://forums.digitalpoint.com/archive is not the first result.

dcristo, have you experienced any improvement in your ranks, or only more pages indexed? It happens that I am currently losing ranks (20~30 positions for results were my pages were in the top ten) and pages indexed (from 400,000 to 15,000).

 

Only more pages indexed. I have always maintained rankings.

 

Results 1 - 10 of about 739 from forums.digitalpoint.com/archive

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...B:en&q=site:www.digitalpoint.com/~shawn&meta=

DP site has long be plagued with parts of it not being in the index, AFAIK Matt Cutts said he would look into why Shawns blog was banned, this was some time ago....

 

I just find it concerning the only part of the forum not being well indexed is the archive section, which are the only pages serving up coop ads.

Does anyone have any observations they would like to share?

 

dcristo,

I've noticed the same thing with my forums. I removed coop and my page index count went way up. About the drop in ranks I am the same way and hoping removed the coop I and everyone who has removed the coop returns back to there first pages.

 

Results 1 - 10 of about 684 from forums.digitalpoint.com/archive


Less today...

 

Just removed co-op ads from one of my larger sites, we'll see how this turns out.

 

also just removed co-op from a large site, let's see how results compare

 

yes coop has given alot harm to my sites in SERP also however i removed the ads now and SERP is improving slowley

 

I switched some of my sites from random (rotating) links to static (at least... for 21 days or whatever it is) and experienced better indexing almost immediately. That was a month or so back, though.

 

My links have been statics since it was an option in the Co-op, but I was heavely penalized anyway.

When did you remove the ads? I did it ten days ago and my ranks are not improving at all.

 

I used to run the coop until last month but the site went supplemental and lost all its weight. After a few weeks I gave up waiting and replaced the coop code with link vault code.

Sure enough the site has gone from 1 indexed page to 725 indexed pages.

 

Does anyone think it would be a good solution to move the penalized site to a new domain/subdomain (via 301 errors)? I have removed the ads two weeks ago but I do not see any improvement. In fact, the site shows less indexed pages than yesterday and the ranks are now penalized in 40 or 50 positions instead of 30.

 

im still seeing no improvement, i get absolutely zilch google traffic now unless someone searches for my exact domain, only had the damn co op on for a week, and removed it the day everyone started getting penalized. Meanwhile my friend with an out of the box ebay bought myspace script is growing steadily and rising the ranks of google.. with no original content. I'm the one who put tens of hours into my site and look where its got me.