..... I noticed large DROP of possitions in Google on MAIN phrases.. I'm using COOP... Doeas Google starts penalize for using COOP ??? BTE domain is over 1 year old... I have beed top3 since last 5 months in serps !!
You will be penalize by google if you do excessive link exchange. And I think that one can lead your site for penalty.
Its well known excessively fast link building will get you a penalty - especially if they are from poor sites like what are in the coop.
Very true, i built a lot of backlinks for one site and google slaped it and took all of its PR, it now its a PR0 site, used to be PR3.
Google will only penalize you for too many links pointing to other sites. They will never penalize you for links pointing to your site. Most people already know this, but just pointing it out in case somebody doesn't.
NOT TRUE, google is cracking down on sites using artificial link building sites such a co-op linkvault etc etc. i guess you don't visit the google section of this site very often otherwise you wouldn't of said what you did There has been a huge amount of sites that have lost their PR, not just from link selling but excessive link building.
Not that I'm trying to argue with you, but unless Google comes out and says that they are penalizing sites for this, and that, and dropping PR on sites because of this and that, it's all speculation, even if it comes from a respected source outside of Google.
No you shouldnt argue with me as i know best LOL! try reading this http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66356&query=links&topic=&type= comes straight from the big G
I'd argue that. Google penalize for links pointing TO a site? Great I can easily get my competitors banned, I'll just point a little co-op at them. Nobody can choose who links to them, so google wont do that or else millions of webmasters will have a weapon. It's not longer about getting yourself in the top 10, it's about getting everyone in the top 10 banned...