Free Coop Advertising Network

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I see this systems is nothing more than a classic 1:1 banner exchange?

 

Yeah, that's what I was thinking at first too. And if you're looking for an impression based system (ie 1:1) there's loads out there.

The thing that struck me was the option to rotate through literally dozens of different anchor/url pairs. So rather than having 100 of the same anchor and url appear on 100 potentially nonspiderable pages, here you have the option to feature links to a variety of your site's individual pages, with seperate anchor texts appearing on pages that are spiderable - (at least that's how I vew it anyway).

Point being, you go open an account with, say, Linksmanager. You pay your money. How many discreet anchor text/url pairs can you use for your acct ? 1. How do you get them out there ? Email (which you can't change either - the initial email is in a fixed format). I know links manager is not a banner exchange program, but at the end of the day, links are links.

In many regards, I figure this to be more sophisticated than your usual banner exchange (and it's managed by a known entity and discussed on an open forum).
It's only drawback is your usual banner exchange will specifically state the impression ratios. This one can't because it's not based on impressions. Rather a mix of site size, and PR as I understand it. It's capped too, so if you have a large site (as I do), with moderate PR, then you still don't have any rediculous weightings.

That's my take anyway. I'm yet to see the advantages, because I've not been in it long enough, but for me the potential advantages outweigh the risk.

All we need now is to see the ads appearing on Shawns DP home page, for the sake of confidence

 

I've started to see the advantages..the search engines have started to pick up on some of the new links. I know the links are related to the program due to the sites I'm seeing them show up for.

What risks?

 

Suggestion: I think it would be useful to show in the control panel how many contributed pages the system is basing its weighting on.

I understand why you don't want to publish all the specific factors of the weight but the outcome of this is that we as members can't validate in any way they we are being given the correct weighting.

But, since we already know the number of pages contributed to the network is one of the highest factors, at least giving us this number would allow us to know if you have made the correct assessment for number of pages contributed.

Thanks!

 

I have been throwing a temper tantrum over here:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=17246&posted=1#post17246

I apologize but I really want to understand this whole thing better. Can we talk about this QUALITY VS. QUANTITY thing a bit more???

 

The risk is in linking to unknown quantities. It'll impact in different ways for different ppl, but in most cases the risk is minimal, which was my point really.

 

What is a good rating/ranking on this tool? It seems to be based on quantity of pages it is showing on within a certain site.

 

I think the only time there would be any "risk" is if questionabls sites/ads were included in the network. As long as the network is "clean" I dont have any concerns.

 

if you have forgotten your username/passwords, how can they be retrieved?

 

The domain I'm after putting the coop on has quite a few other pages which are generated on the fly by a cgi script...when I try to "auto validate" it says I can't because a page I have hasn't got your code on. Any way around this? Or is there a way to put php code in a perl script?

Thanks

Sheepo

 

There is a Perl script available if you search the forum for it.

(I think)

 

Hmm...is it pronounced "coop", like a chicken coop, or "co-op", as in cooperative?

 

co-op as in co-operation

 

Thanks

So any site doing this has to do sitewide ads? What about for sub-domains--are those treated separately?

And can you easily transfer the weight received from a site where you're placing Coop ads, to another site that you want to get ads for?

 

sub-domains are treated seperately - only one account per domain but you can choose to run the ads in a single directory.

You don't need to advertise the site that runs the ads.

 

Hi,

Thanx Shawn for all your tools.

I design all my sites in static html pages. Is there anyway that I can participate?


Sudha

 

Read the FAQ.

 

Certainly. Edit your htaccess file so that your server will run your html files as php files.

 

I have several sites I would like to add. Do I need to create a new account and username for each?