Haha I just checked my keywords with the DP tracker, and my yahoo BL just jumped from 215 to 720 in a day. I guess it finally discovered all those linkvault links. Does yahoo have something like Google where it doesnt let a link count as a BL until it has been around for a while? Or did my site just get really popular all of a sudden?
I noticed this the other day, my main site has gone from around 400 to 1400 BL's in yahoo. I did start using the co-op about 2 weeks ago so looks like it's working
I wouldn't put too much faith in the numbers just yet. One of my sites went from 3000 to 7000 BLs and is now back to 3100. Another went from 7000 to 15000 and there's no way I've got 15000. 7000 is the crrect number. /*tom*/
I jumped to @24,000 from 0 with most being Coop Links which tells me it has nothing to do with longevity of links. One of my other sites went from around 56,000 to 148,000 - Only about 20% of those are Coop
In theory, any linking strategy could lead to some penalty. I've had nothing but good results with LV so far. Coop also has it's place, but I prefer static IBL's - who doesn't. Coop gets used for me to drive yahoo & MSN whilst G is still sandboxing a site, LV is used for long term IBL's - whether it will be around long term, only time will tell. Remember that you cannot use both LV and Coop on the same site. At the end of the day, you could get penalized for any strategy that the SEs decide is un natural - which is basically any link campaign.
I got a 50% BL increase on Yahoo last week for both link: and linkdomain: and I got a serious increase in pages cached too. It seems stable. Google is now way behind for both BL and pages
I guess yahoo just decided to get Slurp busy recently. My BL are holding today, they even went up a bit.