Have you ever got ban in Google for displaying coop ads?

I am doubtful about it.
My one site with very neat topic has been de-indexed after 10 months of ranking well in serp (never got in sandbox).
I see not any reason.

Please comment.

 

In June I've lost many TOP 10 pos because of pointing coop to specific pages. On the other hand not big changes in indexed pages.

 

I'm curious... how do you know that pointing weight to specific pages was the reason you lost positions in the serps? Timing? Did you remove the weight and then your rankings quickly returned?

Also, the site that lost position .. was it also showing COOP ads (reciprocal linking)? Or were you just pointing weight at it (one-way links).


I'd appreciate any comments you could offer. Thanks!

 

I never have. I too would like to see evidence of the above drop in rankings. Sounds like you are just speculating that it had to do with the coop

 

I'm sure because was the only link building way i used at these sites. One site got it's rankings back after a month i removed the coop and loosing positions more logical now (as i didn't buld any links).

 

Thanks for the reply.

And were these sites also hosting COOP ads as well as having weight pointed at them?

Thank you again.

 

The site got back its rankings didn't host any coop links.

 

That really confuses me. I would have thought that if Google was going to penalize a site for using the COOP, that the site would have had to been hosting the ads AND getting weight pointed to it. At least then there would be a trail of reciprocal linking.

But what you are indicating is that your site was hit because of links pointing to it, which could have conceivably been outside of your control. I've not heard of that happening.

That could also imply that if someone had enough weight that they could conceivably "take-out" competitors just by pointing enough weight at them.

A kind of a COOP "Death Ray".


Something seems wrong with that.

 

You may want to read this thread:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=98931

Google will only penalize you if you have co-op ads ON your site.

If you noticed that Google no longer have Digital point co-op tool in its index:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...igitalpoint.com/tools/ad-network/&btnG=Search

where all the other Digital Point Tools are indexed. That should give you a clue..

 

I don't know if coop was a contributing factor or not, but my site did plument on July 27th. I had originally picked up coop ads via a paid advertiser about a year ago and didn't know that they were coop ads or what coop ads were until about a month prior to losing my search placement in July. While I don't know don't know what impact it had, I decided not to risk it and canceled the advertising agreement I had with the advertiser and pulled the coop ads from my sites.

My big concern was that coop ads could easily cause my site to provide links to bad neighborhoods.

 

Google loves permanent and relevant links. So coop can hurt rankings for a site with link building based on it.

There was a previous discuss about it at the end of June, but I can't find it at the moment.

 

There is one established and known fact that Google doesn't penalize your site for the act of any other website (like external backlinks).

So only remaining factor is reason of displaying coop ads.

 

My site was banned from Google for using Co-Op ads.

Wont go near it again.

 

how you are sure?

I am banned but i am not still 100% sure that only reason is displaying coop ads.

 

The fact is nobody can be 100% sure. There are 100's of other ranking variables that Google uses. Most webmasters know that there may be risk using COOP links. When the sh*t hits the fan these same people are quick to blame COOP linking *case closed*. Not entertaining the thought that it may be something else like dup content. I believe this to be the primary reason why sites are vanishing in Google...some of mine include. I don't disagree with that. I do disagree with those that make the immediate assumption that it's COOP linking. Take a good look people, you may be right but you may be wrong. When you remove COOP and day, weeks, months go by and nothing changes...what's next to blame?

No matter what the cause YOU ARE TO BLAME!!

You are the author of your own destiny

H

 

I agree with your analysis - and this would just be plain "wrong" for Google to do. Otherwise, I am going to use Co-op to start kicking my competition in the teeth - hmmmm, right about Nov-Dec - Right? Just in time for the holiday rush.

 

Your are banned for displaying the links, not having them pointed to you.

 

I had one good site which was getting decent traffic from G.
After i added co-op its totally banned with 100% removed from G, and i have no idea how will it recover back.
In msn and yahoo i do have 5000+ backlinks showing each.

 

Its complete drama happening with me.
I removed coop and my site is back in google index.

I also filed re-inclusion request.

But now question is that Google is fast enough to push my site back into index in just 3-4 days ?

Was the reason was displaying of coop ads?


though my site is 100% unique with quality content and neat topic.

 

I think for me it was co-op because it was fine before additn it,
Once i added it was banned and lost PR too.