For example site:thelocalforum.co.uk/forum/ shows over 29k indexed pages site:thelocalforum.co.uk shows 116 indexed pages As a result my coop weight went down from around 20.000 to 300 Is there anything that can be done to fix this? Thanks!
Why don't you use http://www.thelocalforum.co.uk/forum/ as the base URL for the account until things settle with Google?
I have the same issue http://aoe3paradise.com gives me 21k indexed and http://www.aoe3paradise.com gives me 180 indexed. I think all the google data centers are not synchronized and even which is probably the cause of the problem. Using either of the two mentioned URL will always result in the lower weight for me.
dkessaris Thats what i have it as anyway hmmmm I did try http://www.thelocalforum.co.uk/forum/index.php http://www.thelocalforum.co.uk/forum/ http://www.thelocalforum.co.uk http://thelocalforum.co.uk/forum/index.php http://thelocalforum.co.uk/forum/ http://thelocalforum.co.uk And got different weight for all of them but it was still around 300... Also if you keep on clicking "Validate/Calculate Weight Now" it will give you all sorts of weight lol but yet again way too low.
I'm having the same problem with Google's instability. I had around 10,000 weight last night, clicked re-validate and it went down to 8. Google has 12,400 index pages. The validater gives me either 0, 4 or 8 as a weight. Still the same this morning. Other sites with around 300 pages indexed (low I know) gives me 0 but last night gave me 37 - more than the site with 12,400 pages. That'll teach me for validating manually
Is this a growing trend? Has google made an algo to punish the coop ad network users? Who else is seing these problems or are these isolated?
I dont think it has anything to do with coop because im not actually pointing any weight to that site. As far as google is consearned its just a forum with 5 links in the footer.
This is happening to me too... weight is being erratic. The good thing is that if everyone in the coop is getting less weight, then it will equal out and the pageviews will be about the same.
The whole thing is a pretty unfair way of calculation. As I already said before: If you are big, you're getting bigger, but a small one doesn't have a real chance.