It's been a very long time since I've used the co-op ad system, is it at all popular these days? And do you find it effective?
I think you'll find its now more serious than just the ads not being approved, it doesn't work at all anymore.
What do you mean it doesn't work at all? I still have a number of sites with weight, and ads are being displayed.
Mine are basically stuck, though some people are able to add new sites and get weight. I would say that the co-op is frozen or suspended, rather than completely broken. I am not saying that it is functioning well, or that it isn't dying slowly from neglect (for no good reason), but it has not completely failed (yet). I have about 70k in weight right now, but it was much higher before Shawn fixed it to work around the changes that Google made.
Well like I said, it basically doesn't work at all anymore. For the first time in ages, moneyexpert.com is no longer #1 for loans anymore (google.co.uk). In fact its not even on the first page......or the second page for that matter. They were the most famous (or infamous) users of the co-op ad network so that tells you how well it must be working now.
for very competitive niches you can not really depend only on coop you know and google i getting smarter every day ... yahoo and bing are still getting traffic and thus we are also it still works for certain things have phun